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Will Durant

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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.


— Will Durant


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


— Will Durant


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


— Will Durant


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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.


— Will Durant


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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.


— Will Durant


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


— Will Durant


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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.


— Will Durant


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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.


— Will Durant


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


— Will Durant


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


— Will Durant


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Durant Will (2003) An Invitation to Philosophy: Essays and Talks on the Love of Wisdom. 2 which never saw publication. He makes a mighty fine talk.

William James Durant (November 5 1885 – November 7 1981) was a prolific American writer historian and philosopher. He sought to unify and humanize the great body of historical knowledge which had grown too voluminous and become fragmented into esoteric specialties and to vitalize it for contemporary application. He is best known for The Story of Civilization 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and publiWill Durantd between 1935 and 1975.

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