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Education is the transformation of civilisation
Will Durant
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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
Education
Civilisation
Transformation
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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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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Liberty is a product of order.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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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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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Even when repressed, inequality grows only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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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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Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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