Who is Will Durant
William James Durant (; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He became best known for his work The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy".Durant conceived of philosophy as total perspective or seeing things sub specie totius (i.e. “from the perspective of the whole”)—a phrase inspired by Spinoza's sub specie aeternitatis, roughly meaning "from the perspective of the eternal". He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge, which had grown voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialt...Read Full Biography of Will Durant
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- In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
- There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
- Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Drsho_aib: “we are what we repeatedly do. excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — will durant
Mrphilosophy: "biologically, man is badly equipped for civilization since instincts provide only for basic situations and include impulses more adapted to the jungle than to the town." ~will durant
Mrphilosophy: "every vice was once a virtue, necessary in the struggle for existence and haven't been quite been stamped out; some of them have a certain survival value even today." ~will durant
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