We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; 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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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