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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
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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