The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

About Will Durant

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William James Durant (; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American historian and philosopher, best known for his eleven-volume work, The Story of Civilization, which contains and details the history of Eastern and Western civilizations. It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published...

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

—Robert Ingersoll

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

—Julian Jaynes

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