Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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 Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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