Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The family is the nucleus 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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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