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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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