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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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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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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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