We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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