Will Durant Quotes
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.
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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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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.