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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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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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