75 ordspråk av Will Durant
Will Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art
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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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For even higher than the life of art is the art of life.
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
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From the point of view of morals, life seems to he divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun.
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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.
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If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.
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