Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own 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.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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