Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.
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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 hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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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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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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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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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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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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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.