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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

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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
Justice
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Often your face is your autobiography
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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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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 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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