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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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Nothing
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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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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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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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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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