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Will Durant Quotes

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
Excellence, Habit, Act
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.
Will Durant
Freedom, Age, Great
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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Life, Day, World
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Nature, Independence, Never
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge, Ignorance, Desert
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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Time, Fool, People
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
Liberty, Dictatorship, Near
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - Will Durant
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Will Durant
Art, Science, Philosophy
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.
Will Durant
Man, Neighbor, Laws
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Political, Acting, Divided
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education, Ignorance
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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War, Past, Free
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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Hope, People, Wishes
The family is the nucleus of civilization. - Will Durant
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant
Family, Civilization
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant
Love, Man, Wife
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
Art, Communication, Nothing
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
History, Good, Clever
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
Time, Mom, Memory
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Environmental, Moral, Codes
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Government, Excess, Basic
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Truth, Broken, Minority
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Become, Virtue, Hatred
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
Education, Ignorance, Know
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant
Certainty, Inquiry, Fatal
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant
Time, History, Too Much
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. - Will Durant
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Knowledge, Soul, Eye
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Biography

Nationality: American
Type: Historian
Born: November 5, 1885
Died: November 7, 1981
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