The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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