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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant

And, after speech, it provided a readier instrument for the dissemination of nonsense than the world has ever known until our time. — Will Durant

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. — Will Durant

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. — Will Durant

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. — Will Durant

If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant

the fine or composition-money for killing a king was 30,000 thrimsas ($13,000); — Will Durant

To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . . — Will Durant

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods. — Will Durant

The family is the nucleus of civilization. — Will Durant

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas. — Will Durant

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. — Will Durant

Peace is war by other means. — Will Durant

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk. — Will Durant

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

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

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past. — Will Durant

History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice. — Will Durant

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. — Will Durant

Prudens quaestio dimidium scientiae - to know what to ask is already to know half. — Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. — Will Durant

The class war had turned democracy into a contest in legislative looting. — Will Durant

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. — Will Durant

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

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. — Will Durant

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. — Will Durant

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever. — Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. — Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. — Will Durant

Nothing is impossible to gods and authors. — Will Durant

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. — Will Durant

The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other. — Will Durant

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

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. — Will Durant

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it. — Will Durant

[W]orship, if not the child, is at least
the brother, of fear. — Will Durant

There his chief enterprises are reading and doing nothing. — Will Durant

Nothing is new except arrangement. — Will Durant

The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This — Will Durant

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all. — Will Durant

A disintegrating individualism had weakened the Athenian character, and left the city a prey at last to the sternly-nurtured Spartans. — Will Durant

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. — Will Durant

Coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the heights of thought into the mart of economic strife and gain. — Will Durant

War does one good - it teaches people geography. — Will Durant

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power. — Will Durant

Education is the transformation of civilisation — Will Durant

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome. — Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. — Will Durant

What I am not," he says, most truthfully, "that for me is God — Will Durant

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. — Will Durant

A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean — Will Durant

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. — Will Durant

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil. — Will Durant

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life. — Will Durant

Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. — Will Durant

When Germany defeated Napoleon it was a disastrous to culture as when Luther defeated the Church. — Will Durant

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one. — Will Durant

But he had gained a perspective of thought in which every extreme was seen as a half-truth, — Will Durant

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. — Will Durant

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism. — Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant

Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies. — Will Durant

Self Government by extravagance and incompetence brings its own end. — Will Durant

But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. — Will Durant

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals — Will Durant

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man. — Will Durant

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy. — Will Durant

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was — Will Durant

Communism is the opiate of the people. — Will Durant

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding — Will Durant

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. — Will Durant

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. — Will Durant

Intolerance is the natural concomitant of strong faith; tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Plato — Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. — Will Durant

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably. — Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process — Will Durant

We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state. — Will Durant

Get a child interested in learning a skill while young and they will remember forever. — Sybrina Durant

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant

The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples; — Will Durant

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

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

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization. — Will Durant

life must breed. — Will Durant

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. — Will Durant

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

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

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. — Will Durant

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. — Will Durant

He had the philosopher's disease of seeing so far ahead that all the little pleasant shapes and colors of existence passed under his nose unseen. — Will Durant

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things. — Will Durant

Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce - except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy. — Will Durant

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils. — Will Durant

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day — Will Durant

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