Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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