Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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