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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant
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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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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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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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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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