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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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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
Creation
Culture
Ends
Insecurity
Cultural
Begins
Chaos

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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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