Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; 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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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