Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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.
WILL DURANTHistory is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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