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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
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Philosophy
Science
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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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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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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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 health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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 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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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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