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Will Durant Inspirational Quotes (174)

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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
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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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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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Communism is the opiate of the people.
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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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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves let us be above such transparent egotism. If you can't say good and encouraging things, say nothing. Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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