Will Durant Quotes
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision…
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be…
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to…
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we…
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Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being…
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom…
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in…
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism…
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