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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
Insecurity
Cultural
Begins
Chaos
Creation
Culture
Ends

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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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