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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
Turns
Around
Real
Mind
Examines
Philosophy

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Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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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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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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by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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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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