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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Mirage
Mirages
Expanding
Desert
Ignorance
Knowledge
Receding

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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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