Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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