Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTIf 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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