Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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