Will Durant Quotes

Will Durant (43)

Birth:	5th November, 1885
Death:	7th November, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, Writer

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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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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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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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• Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

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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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• 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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• The family is the nucleus of civilization.

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• Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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• Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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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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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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• Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

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