Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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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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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.