American - Historian | November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981
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
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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.
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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.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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.
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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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