“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.” — Will Durant Quote

“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”

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

“The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.”

“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”

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

“اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر.”

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

“When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.”

“Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.”

“The first time you hear a song you might not remember the words, but you can go to the record store and hum the melody. The story almost becomes secondary.”

“Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.”

“When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.”