Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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