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Søren Kierkegaard
“Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.”
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Will Durant
“Generally religion and puritanism prevail in periods when the laws are feeble and morals must bear the burden of maintaining social order; skepticism and paganism (other factors being equal) progress as the rising power of law and government permits the decline of the church, the family, and morality without basically endangering the stability of the state.”
Will Durant, The Lessons of History

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“Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.”
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy

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“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
Will Durant, The Lessons of History

Will Durant
“The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples;”
Will Durant, Caesar and Christ

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