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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
Will Durant
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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
Insecurity
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Never mind your happiness do your duty.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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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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