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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

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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
Philosophy
Turns
Around
Real
Mind
Examines

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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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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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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest if you wish to be admired, be proud if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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