Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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