The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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 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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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