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.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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