The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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