Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly… — 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
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Spinoza compares the feeling of free will to a stone’s thinking, as it travels through space, that it determines its own trajectory… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West;… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this… — 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
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We shall never be able to do justice to Indian art, for ignorance and fanaticism have destroyed its greatest achievements, and have… — 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
