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Will Durant - From the Achievement category:
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Aging category:
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)
Will Durant - From the Authority category:
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)
Will Durant - From the Authority category:
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)
Will Durant - From the Change category:
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Chaos category:
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Children category:
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Communication category:
Education is the transmission of civilization. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Communication category:
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Culture category:
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Design category:
-quoting Leonardo da Vinci, Heroes of History...
'Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Earth category:
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Education category:
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Ego category:
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Excellence category:
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Faith category:
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Faith category:
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. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Freedom category:
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Freedom category:
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Habit category:
- The Story of Philosophy, 1926...
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Happiness category:
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Harmony category:
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the History category:
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)
Will Durant - From the History category:
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Immortality category:
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Joy category:
-The Story of Philosophy, 1926...
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Knowledge category:
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Love category:
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Memory category:
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Money category:
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Morality category:
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Morality category:
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Nature category:
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Order category:
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)
Will Durant - From the Peace category:
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Philosophy category:
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Politics category:
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Politics category:
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Questions category:
Inquiry is fatal to certainty. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Questions category:
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)
Will Durant - From the Religion category:
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Suffering category:
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Teaching category:
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Thinking category:
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Time category:
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Truth category:
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. (Will Durant)
Will Durant - From the Tyranny category:
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. (Will Durant)
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