Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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