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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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Philosophy
Science
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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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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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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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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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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