Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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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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Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.
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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 is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
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The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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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.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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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.