Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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