History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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 the transmission of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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