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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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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
Men
Deceived
Occasionally
Rational
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Emotional
Animal
Feelings
Heart

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Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
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We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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