The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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