The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Education is the transmission 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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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