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Quotes from Philosophy and the Social Problem — Will Durant

1885–1981 United States

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The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization.

Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)

They feel themselves the unwilling enemies of the state: they think of men in terms of personality while the state thinks of men in terms of social mechanism.

Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)

The history of philosophy is essentially an account of the efforts great men have made to avert social disintegration by building up natural moral sanctions to take the place of the supernatural sanctions which they themselves have destroyed.

Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)

Every civilization comes at last to the point where the individual, made by speculation conscious of himself as an end per se, demands of the state, as the price of its continuance, that it shall henceforth enhance rather than exploit his capacities.

Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917)

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