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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
Money
Things
Men
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Education is the transformation of civilisation
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.
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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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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.
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