Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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