To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power. - Will Durant

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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

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About Will Durant

William James Durant (5 November 1885 – 7 November 1981) was an American historian, philosopher and writer, best remembered for his works The Story of Philosophy, and The Story of Civilization.

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Alternative Names: William James "Will" Durant William James Durant

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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.

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يقول سبينوزا: إننا تتقاذفنا الأسباب الخارجية من كل ناحية، ونتحرك كأمواج تدفعها رياح معاكسة لا نعرف شيئاً عن مصيرنا. والإنسان إذا تحكمت به العواطف لا يرى إلا جانباً واحداً من الموقف. وبالفكر وحده يستطيع الإنسان أن يرى موقفه من جميع نواحيه. إن العاطفة فكرة ناقصة. والعواطف الغريزية عظيمة كقوة دافعة ولكنها خطيرة كمرشد لنا، لأن كل واحدة من الغرائز تبحث عن إشباع رغباتها، غير مهتمة بمصلحة الشخصية كلها. أي دمار نزل بالناس بسبب الإفراط في الطمع وحب الخصام أو الشهوات حتى غدوا عبيد غرائزهم التي تسيطر عليهم. إن العواطف التي تهاجمنا كل يوم مرتبطة بجزء من الجسد الذي يتأثر بها أكثر من بقية الأجزاء، والعواطف متطرفة وتمنع العقل من التفكير إلا في موضوع واحد، ولا يعود يقوى على التفكير في الأشياء الأخرى

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