Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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