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43 Will Durant Quotes & Sayings
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43 Will Durant Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 5 November 1885 |
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Historian
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Philosopher
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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.
Will Durant
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.
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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.
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Love
Youth
Old man
Wife
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Knowledge
Desire
Pilot
Soul
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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.
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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.
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Lessons
History
Good thing
Clever
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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We
Excellence
Act
Habit
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Inquiry
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Socialism
Little
Money
Cure
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Nature
Read
Independence
Unequal
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Family
Nucleus
Civilization
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance
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Education
Discovery
Own
Ignorance
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Science
Begins
Philosophy
Art
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Liberty
Complete
Dies
Anarchy
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Political
Triumphs
United
Majority
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Liberty
License
Dictatorship
Near
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Woe
Teaches
Men
Learn
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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History
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Moral codes
Adjust
Environmental
Conditions
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Man
Free
Subject
Law
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Science
Knowledge
Philosophy
Wisdom
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Knowledge
Mirage
Desert
Ignorance
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Form
Government
Perish
Principle
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy
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Say
Speaking
Art
Diplomacy
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How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
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How
Suffering
Thought
Death
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
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Tolerance
Grows
Faith
Certainty
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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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
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Mistakes
Failure
Today
Lucky
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In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
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Philosophy
Politics
Distance
Points
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In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.
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End
Lost
Good
Evil
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History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
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History
Excellent
Few
Pupils
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Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.
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Read
Think
Mankind
Rejoice
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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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.
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Morality
Kindness
Weak
Strong
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Nothing is impossible to gods and authors.
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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
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Confer
Kindness
Superiority
Mark
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If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.
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Ideas
History
Inventions
Determined
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Peace is war by other means.
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Peace
War
Means
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Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
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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.
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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
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Poor
Rich
Opportunity
Skill
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There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.
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Real
Philosophy
Mind
Examines
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