A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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