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.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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