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Christianity did not destroy paganism it adopted it.

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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
Paganism
Adopted
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Christianity

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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
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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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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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