For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external… — 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
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft… — 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
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
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
