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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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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
Woe
Teaches
Faster
Education
Teach
Learn
Men

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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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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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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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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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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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