“Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins,… — 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
“Frederick agreed that the punishment of La Barre was extreme; for his part he would rather have condemned the youth to read… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is clear that as our walking is admittedly nothing but a constantly-prevented falling, so the life of our bodies is nothing… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“When the universe has crushed him man will still be nobler than that which kills him, because he knows that he is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“for every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“In all things I saw the passion of life for growth and greatness, the drama of everlasting creation. I came to think… — 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 Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
