Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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