Will Durant
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.
-Will Durant
age
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
-Will Durant
age
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
-Will Durant
art
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
-Will Durant
art
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
-Will Durant
best
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
-Will Durant
change
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant
education
Education is the transmission of civilization.
-Will Durant
education
Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
-Will Durant
education
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
-Will Durant
environmental
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
-Will Durant
family
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.
-Will Durant
freedom
We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
-Will Durant
freedom
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
-Will Durant
freedom
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
-Will Durant
good
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
-Will Durant
government
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-Will Durant
history
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
-Will Durant
history
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
-Will Durant
history
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
-Will Durant
hope
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
-Will Durant
knowledge
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
-Will Durant
knowledge
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
-Will Durant
knowledge
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
-Will Durant
money
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
-Will Durant
money
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
-Will Durant
nature
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
-Will Durant
science
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
-Will Durant
science
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
-Will Durant
time
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
-Will Durant
truth
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
-Will Durant
war
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
-Will Durant
wisdom
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