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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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Aviation
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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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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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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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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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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