Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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