Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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