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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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