To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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