Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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