The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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