Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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