The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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