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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

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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
Thought
Men
Decreased
Unknown
Overcoming
Grew
Knowledge
Less
Fear

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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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Civilizations come and go they conquer the earth and crumble into dust but faith survives every desolation.
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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Science tells us how to heal and how to kill it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
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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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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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