Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTThe 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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