There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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 the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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