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Will Durant's Profile

Brief about Will Durant: By info that we know Will Durant was born at 1970-01-01. And also Will Durant is American Historian.

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Tags: Basic, Government, Principle

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Tags: Certainty, Fatal, Inquiry

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Tags: Conditions, Moral, Themselves

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Tags: Cannot, Ego, Mind

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

Tags: Begins, Broken, Truth

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.

Tags: Best, Earth, Last

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

Tags: History, Money, Wise

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Tags: Chaos, Liberty, Order

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Tags: Afford, Cannot, Moralist

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

Tags: Age, Money, Socialism

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Tags: Activity, Freedom, Order

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Tags: History, Prejudice, Rest

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Tags: Against, Flame, Income

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Tags: Free, Law, Subject

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Tags: Education, Ignorance, Knew

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

Tags: Freedom, Living, Street

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

Tags: Him, Learn, Men

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Tags: Discovery, Education, Ignorance

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.

Tags: Fool, Time, True

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.

Tags: Good, Others, Speak
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