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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
Civilisation
Transformation
Education
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Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
Will Durant
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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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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So prominent was the Jewish role in the foreign commerce of Europe that those nations that received the Jews gained and the countries that excluded them lost in the volume of international trade.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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