History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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