Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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