The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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