There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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