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.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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