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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
Atheism
Learning
Science
Fatal
Inquiry
Certainty
Acceptance
Discovery

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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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