Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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