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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
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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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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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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