75 ordspråk av Will Durant
Will Durant
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance
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Perhaps Gandhi failed as saints are likely to fail in this very hostile, selfish and Darwinian world. But these very failures are the eternal successes attained by saintly people as they can never stoop to the detestable levels of this materialistic world in which each one is running after the god of Mammon.
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline that lifts as to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance
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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.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
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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 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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The State, which had so often called for a reform of the Church, was now part of the evils, for the bishops were appointed by the King.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes and fears rather than with their minds.
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The universe of thought is only one of many worlds; each sense has its own; each art has therefore its characteristic medium, which cannot be translated into speech. Even an artist writes about art in vain.
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The worship of Mary transformed Catholicism from a religion of terror - perhaps necessary in the Dark Ages - into a religion of mercy and love
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