Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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