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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
Culture
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Insecurity
Cultural
Begins
Chaos
Creation

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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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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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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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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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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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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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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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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