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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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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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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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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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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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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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