Will Durant Quotes
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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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.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.