One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I 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.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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