Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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