Will Durant
Will Durant
William James "Will" Durantwas an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy"...
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Date of Birth5 November 1885
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.