Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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