Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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