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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
Air
Turns
Dial
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Fingers
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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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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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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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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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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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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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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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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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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