Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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