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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

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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
Humans
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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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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 gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a 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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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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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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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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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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