History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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