Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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