As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own 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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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