Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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 are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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