The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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