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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
Chaos
Creation
Culture
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Insecurity
Cultural
Begins

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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 health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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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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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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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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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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