Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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