Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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