Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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.
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.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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