We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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