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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
Acceptance
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Atheism
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Fatal
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Certainty

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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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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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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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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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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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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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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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