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Will Durant
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
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North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
Will Durant
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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