Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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