Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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