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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
Ends
Insecurity
Cultural
Begins
Chaos
Creation
Culture

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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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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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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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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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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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