Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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