We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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 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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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