As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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