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.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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 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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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