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• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

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• Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

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  Art, Philosophy, Achievement

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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  Education, Knowledge, Eye

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

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  Book, Eye, Night

  Will Durant (1931). “Adventures in Genius”

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• As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

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  Long, Poverty

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• The finger that turns the dial rules the air.

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  Air, Fingers, Turns

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• The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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  Doe, Individual, Mankind

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1957). “The Story of Civilization: The Reformation”

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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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  Views, Concentration Of Wealth, Economic History

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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  Liberty, Anarchy, Dies

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

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• To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

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  Harmony, Strife, Universal

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• In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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  Philosophy, Distance, Two

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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• No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

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  Success, Work, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.

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  Secret, Bankers, Fluctuation

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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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  Civilization, History, Ruins

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

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  Learning, Player, Games

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• The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

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  Law, Concentration Of Wealth, Politics

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• Often your face is your autobiography

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  Faces, Your Face, Autobiography

  Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

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  History, Rich, Made

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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• In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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  Philosophy, People, Youth

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Men, Land, May

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

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• Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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  Education, Men, Woe

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

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  Evil, Forever, Events

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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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  Moving, Sea, Civilization

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is new except arrangement.

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  Writing, Creativity, Originality

  Will Durant (2002). “Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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