The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Great gaps occur in the history of the art, because most of the early work was ruined by the climate, and much… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Religions of hope and love are a luxury of security and order; the need for striking fear into a subject or rebellious… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy. In the last 3,421 years of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that's a lot of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a supreme being… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Edward I (1272–1307) was less a scholar than his father, and more a king; ambitious, strong of will, tenacious in war, subtle… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the cause of our contemporary pessimism is our tendency to view history as a turbulent stream of conflicts – between individuals… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share
“privately he composed—in French—a poem expressing his pleasure at having given the French a kick in the cul, which Carlyle delicately translated as “the… — Will Durant Copy Share
“And in the individual too, justice is effective coördination, the harmonious functioning of the elements in a man, each in its fit place and… — Will Durant Copy Share
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