Will Durant Quotes
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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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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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.