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.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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