Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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