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.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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