Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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