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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."
"Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified."
"So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him."
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."
"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"
Explore more quotes by Will Durant
"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."
"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 recirculation."
"Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children."
"But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak."
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