Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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