Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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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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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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