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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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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
Philosophy
Science
Arises
Art
Flows
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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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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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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 soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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