Will Durant Quotes

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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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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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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

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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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Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into the known.

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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

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Magic begins in superstition and ends in science.

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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

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

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Philosophy... is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory.

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