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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
Swift
Aviation
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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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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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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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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