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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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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
Understanding
Knowledge
Power
Liberty
Wisdom

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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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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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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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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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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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