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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant

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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
Liberty
Wisdom
Understanding
Knowledge
Power

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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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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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