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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

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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
Religion
Faith
Soul
Civilization
Dies

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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.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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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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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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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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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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The finger that turns the dial rules the air.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
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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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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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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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