Will Durant Quotes
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Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the bankers know that history is inflationary.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
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Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process.
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Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.
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As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
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The crossroads of trade are the meeting place of ideas, the attrition ground of rival customs and beliefs; diversities beget conflict, comparison, thought; superstitions cancel one another, and reason begins.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
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Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
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India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
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Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
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For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.