When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTThe 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.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANT