The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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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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