Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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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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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 begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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