We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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