History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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 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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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