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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
Examines
Philosophy
Turns
Around
Real
Mind

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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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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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