Will Durant Quotes About Chaos
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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