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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
Ends
Hypothesis
Every
Arise
Begins
Achievement
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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