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.
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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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