Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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