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"43 Will Durant Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 5 November 1885 | Writer | Historian | Philosopher |

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

People Think Hopes Mind
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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.

Ego Machine Man Mind
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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.

Love Youth Old man Wife
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge Desire Pilot Soul
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Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education Transmission Civilization
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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.

Youth Freedom Liberty 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.

Lessons History Good thing Clever
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

We Excellence Act Habit
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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

Socialism Little Money Cure
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Nature Read Independence Unequal
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Family Nucleus Civilization
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

Education Discovery Own Ignorance
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Science Begins Philosophy Art
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Liberty Complete Dies Anarchy
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Political Triumphs United Majority
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Liberty License Dictatorship Near
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe Teaches Men Learn
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History Guessing Rest Prejudice
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes Adjust Environmental Conditions
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Man Free Subject Law
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Knowledge Mirage Desert Ignorance
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Form Government Perish Principle
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy

Say Speaking Art Diplomacy
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

How Suffering Thought Death
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Tolerance Grows Faith Certainty
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Suffered Become Bitter Gentle
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

Mistakes Failure Today Lucky
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Philosophy Politics Distance Points
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

End Lost Good Evil
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History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

History Excellent Few Pupils
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

Read Think Mankind Rejoice
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Rulers Religion Tool Power
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Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak; morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.

Morality Kindness Weak Strong
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Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.

Nothing Impossible Gods Authors
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To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination

Confer Kindness Superiority Mark
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If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

Ideas History Inventions Determined
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Peace is war by other means.

Peace War Means
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Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

Death Style Removal Rubbish
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

History Manage Men Money
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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

Poor Rich Opportunity Skill
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.

Real Philosophy Mind Examines
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