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Education is the transmission of civilization.

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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
Education
Transmission
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Civilization
Teaching
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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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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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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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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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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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