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Education is the transformation of civilisation

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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
Civilisation
Transformation
Education

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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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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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