Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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