Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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 vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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