I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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