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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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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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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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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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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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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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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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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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