Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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