Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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