One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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