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Will Durant

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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.


— Will Durant


#answers #being #bothered #day #get

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.


— Will Durant


#complete #dies #liberty #soon

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.


— Will Durant


#fatal #inquiry

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.


— Will Durant


#begins #broken #custom #every #minority

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.


— Will Durant


#cannot #moralist #statesman

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


— Will Durant


#desire #eye #knowledge #pilot #soul

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.


— Will Durant


#his #love #man #old #old man

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.


— Will Durant


#cure #little #little money #money #nothing

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.


— Will Durant


#history #hoard #inflationary #know #last

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.


— Will Durant


#civilization #cultural #freedom #order #promoting






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Durant Will (2003) An Invitation to Philosophy: Essays and Talks on the Love of Wisdom. 2 which never saw publication. He makes a mighty fine talk.

William James Durant (November 5 1885 – November 7 1981) was a prolific American writer historian and philosopher. He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge which had grown too voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialties and to vitalize it for contemporary application. He is best known for The Story of Civilization 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and publiWill Durantd between 1935 and 1975.

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