We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Quote by Will Durant

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the...

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the...

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She...

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She...

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty

Inquiry is fatal to certainty

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes...

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes...

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative...

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative...

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

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

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

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

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

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone...

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless...

The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless...

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

Without adventure civilization is in full decay