The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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