Will Durant Quotes

• The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

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• One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.

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• The Scientist is as interested in the leg of the flea as the creative throes of a genius… Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail, and then kills us wholesale in war.

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• Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.

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

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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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• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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• Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

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• When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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• We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

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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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• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

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• 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.

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

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• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

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• There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

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• 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.

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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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Will Durant (46)

Birth:	5th November, 1885
Death:	7th November, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Philosopher, Teacher, Writer

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