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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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