Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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 the transmission of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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