Will Durant Quotes

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Will Durant

Profession : Historian

Birth : November 5, 1885

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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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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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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