Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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