Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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.
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