Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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 begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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