One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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