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Will Durant Quotes

«India was the mother 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 Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
«Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance»
«Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity»
«If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.»
«I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.»
«Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: Dissent | Keywords: dissent, sorely, turbulence
«In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: Freedom | Keywords: stress, stressed
«Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way»
«Inquiry is fatal to certainty»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: Research | Keywords: inquiry
«History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: History | Keywords: guessing, mostly, prejudice

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