The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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