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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
— Will Durant
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Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
— 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
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
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
— 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
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
— 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
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
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
— Will Durant
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean
— 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
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
But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
— Will Durant
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[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
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
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 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
History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.
— Will Durant
