The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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