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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

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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
Explain
Done
Things
Men
Wherever
Arise

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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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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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The future never just happened. It was created.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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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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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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