Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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