Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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