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.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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