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Will Durant

Will Durant

American writer, historian, and philosopher

Lived from: 1885 - 1981

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 5 november 1885 Died: 7 november 1981

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  • Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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  • Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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  • Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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  • Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
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  • No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
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  • Nothing is new except arrangement.
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  • One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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  • Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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  • Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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  • Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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  • The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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  • The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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  • 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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  • The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.
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  • There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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  • We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
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  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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