Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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 begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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