The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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