Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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