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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
Youth
Poetry
Produce
Philosophy
People
Decadence
Mythology
Logic

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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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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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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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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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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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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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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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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