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Will Durant QUOTES

  • 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.

  • Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  • 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.

  • There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.



  • The family is the nucleus of civilization.

  • Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

  • 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.

  • Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

  • Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

  • To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves

  • It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment.


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