A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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