Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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