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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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