Will Durant Quotes
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The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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By and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them.
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Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
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Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient.
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In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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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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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.