Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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