Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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