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Will Durant
Will Durant
American Historian
Born: Nov 5, 1885
Died: Nov 7, 1981
Civilization Every Liberty Man Nothing Will
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education Ignorance Own Progressive Our Discovery
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Will Durant
Liberty Chaos Civilization Begins Dies Order Grows
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. Will Durant
Good Speak Clever Nothing Others Way Say Ourselves Good Thing Always Praising Often Dishonest Ill Thing
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. Will Durant
Time You Fool People Be True Country Enough Rule True May Them Large
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant
Political Minority Machine Triumphs Divided Majority Because Against Acting United
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant
Liberty Dictatorship License Becomes Near
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. Will Durant
Needs Man Own Anarchist Neighbor Superfluous Case Laws Only He Sure Because His Privately Them Ask Many Thinks
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. Will Durant
Art Communication Diplomacy Half Nothing Say Speaking
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant
Change Civilization Without Geological Subject Exists Notice Consent
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Will Durant
Time History Too Much Too Too Much Time Spend Thousand Thousand Years Hours Most Years Six Little Us Much Twenty-Four Last
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries. Will Durant
Best People Events Earth Hours American Sixty Informed Centuries Twenty-Four Last
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. Will Durant
Love Man Youth Old Wife Our Superficial His Old Man Compared
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant
Knowledge Ignorance Our Mirage Expanding Desert
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education Ignorance Own Nothing Progressive Our Everything Knew Know Years Years Ago Discovery Sixty Now
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant
Good History Clever Nothing Say Good Thing Always Often Lessons Thing
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant
Hope People Fears Trouble Think Minds Hopes Rather Wishes Most Than
Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Will Durant
Inquiry Certainty Fatal
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. Will Durant
Environmental Adjust Moral Conditions Themselves Codes
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. Will Durant
Art Science Every Philosophy Begins Ends
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. Will Durant
Life Day Human Being World Will Bothered Never He Most Knowing Him Another Answers His Questions Get Wonders Human Being Interesting Interesting Thing Who Suffers Thing Last Raises
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. Will Durant
Truth Broken Minority Every Always Precedent Begins Custom
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. Will Durant
Great Freedom Age Youth Liberty Old Stress Made Old Age Discovery Order Product Stressed
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. Will Durant
Freedom Living Broadway Excess Take Look Just Street
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. Will Durant
Man Law Free Recognized He Became Subject
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Will Durant
Freedom Promoting Civilization Cultural Order Activity
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Will Durant
Flame Adequate Marriages Hasty Mutual Am Where Against Income
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