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 DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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