Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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