Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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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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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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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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