The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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