There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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