Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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