Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTThere is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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