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Quotes by Will Durant

US historian (1885 - 1981)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire.

CP One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.