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.

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.

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

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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

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

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

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

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

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

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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

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

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

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

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

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

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

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

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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.

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.

Education is the transmission of civilization.