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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
Education
Civilisation
Transformation

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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
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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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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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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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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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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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