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In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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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
Logic
Youth
Poetry
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Philosophy
People
Decadence
Mythology

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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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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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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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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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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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Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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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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