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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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 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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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