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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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 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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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