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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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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
Science
Fatal
Inquiry
Certainty
Acceptance
Discovery
Atheism
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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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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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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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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