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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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 have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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