All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Democracy means perfect equality of opportunity, especially in education; not the rotation of every Tom, Dick and Harry in public office.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The class war had turned democracy into a contest in legislative looting.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out… — 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
“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine… — 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
