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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
Feelings
Heart
Men
Deceived
Occasionally
Rational
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Emotional
Animal

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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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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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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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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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Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
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