“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.”
Environmental
“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”
AgeAll Quotes by Will Durant
“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Education“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
History“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”
Family“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
Education“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.”
Best“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
Education“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.”
Time“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”
Government“Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.”
Nature“History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.”
History“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
Knowledge“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”
Hope“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.”
Good“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
Art“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
Freedom“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”
Truth“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
Knowledge“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.”
Age“There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.”
Age