Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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