We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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