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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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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
History
Constants
Diminished
Civilization
Democracy
War

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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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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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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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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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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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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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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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