Will Durant Quotes
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
-
I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
-
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart
-
I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
Faith Hill
-
Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
Agnes Martin
-
I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.
Charlie Parker
-
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.
Tom Stoppard
-
The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.
Aristotle
-
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes
-
You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
Winifred Holtby
-
I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
Alejandro Ghersi
-
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.
Henry Louis Gates
-
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
Walter Cronkite
