Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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