Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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