We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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