Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTIf 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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