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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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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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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