Will Durant Quotes - Page 8

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• Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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  Nature, Equality, Independence

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

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  Broken Heart, Truth, Minorities

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• Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

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  Thinking, Library, Mankind

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• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

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  Night, Government, Hands

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

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  Husband, Divorce, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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  Statesmen, Moralist

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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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  Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

  Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

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  Men, Progress, Liberty

  Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

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  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Will Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization...: Caesar and Christ”

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• So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

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  Running, Men, Circles

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

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  Funny, Hopeful, Aviation

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2011). “The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

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  Army, Vegetables, Vegetarian

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