Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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