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.
WILL DURANTThe 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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