Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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