Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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