Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTScience gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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