Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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