Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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