Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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In 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.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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