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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
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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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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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Often your face is your autobiography
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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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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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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