Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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