Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of 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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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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