Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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