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威尔·杜兰特 普利策奖和自由勋章获得者

威尔·杜兰特(Will Durant,1885-1981),男,美国著名学者,普利策奖(1968)和自由勋章(1977)获得者,主要著作有《世界文明史》等。

The aim of education is not to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.
教育的目的不是把人变成木匠,而是把木匠变成人。
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the West; it is whether man can bear to live without God.
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks.
文明是一条有岸的河流。河流有时充满了人们杀戮、偷窃、喊叫和做历史学家通常记录的事情的血,而在岸上,不被注意,人们建造家园,做爱,抚养孩子,唱歌,写诗,甚至雕刻雕像。文明的故事是发生在岸上的故事。
The knowledge of the past stays with us to spur us on to new achievements.
过去的知识与我们同在,激励我们取得新的成就。
History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.