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Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way - Will Durant Quotes

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle - Will Durant Quotes

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. - Will Durant Quotes

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Age And Aging American Historian

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. - Will Durant Quotes

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime - Will Durant Quotes

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent - Will Durant Quotes

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance - Will Durant Quotes

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Quotes

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

American Historian Discovery

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law - Will Durant Quotes

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. - Will Durant Quotes

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

American Historian

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war - Will Durant Quotes

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change - Will Durant Quotes

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. - Will Durant Quotes

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

American Historian Ego

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom - Will Durant Quotes

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art - Will Durant Quotes

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Art

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. - Will Durant Quotes

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

American Historian Desire

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. - Will Durant Quotes

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Acting And Actors American Historian

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. - Will Durant Quotes

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

American Historian Anarchy

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice - Will Durant Quotes

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice

Education is the transmission of civilization. - Will Durant Quotes

Education is the transmission of civilization.

American Historian Civilization

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos - Will Durant Quotes

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance - Will Durant Quotes

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist - Will Durant Quotes

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. - Will Durant Quotes

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

American Historian Human

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. - Will Durant Quotes

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.

American Historian Fools And Foolishness

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant Quotes

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries - Will Durant Quotes

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - Will Durant Quotes

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

American Historian

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. - Will Durant Quotes

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Banks

Inquiry is fatal to certainty - Will Durant Quotes

Inquiry is fatal to certainty

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world. - Will Durant Quotes

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the world.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game - Will Durant Quotes

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. - Will Durant Quotes

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

American Historian Dishonesty Integrity

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years - Will Durant Quotes

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say - Will Durant Quotes

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant Quotes

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

American Historian Art

India was the mother 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 Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. - Will Durant Quotes

India was the mother 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 Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

India

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity - Will Durant Quotes

Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. - Will Durant Quotes

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

American Historian

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near - Will Durant Quotes

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard - Will Durant Quotes

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions - Will Durant Quotes

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions

The worship of Mary transformed Catholicism from a religion of terror - perhaps necessary in the Dark Ages - into a religion of mercy and love - Will Durant Quotes

The worship of Mary transformed Catholicism from a religion of terror - perhaps necessary in the Dark Ages - into a religion of mercy and love

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative - Will Durant Quotes

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river. - Will Durant Quotes

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. - Will Durant Quotes

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

American Historian

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant Quotes

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

American Historian

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. - Will Durant Quotes

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

American Historian

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - Will Durant Quotes

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

American Historian

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