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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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 begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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