Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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