We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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