Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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