Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
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
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves: we have botched and bungled our lives,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life. One is that of… — 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
“If there is any intelligence guiding this universe, philosophy wishes to know and understand it and reverently work with it; if there… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power,… — 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
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
“Men look to love and life for everything; they receive a little less than that; they imagine that they have received nothing:… — 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
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
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
“The constant steaming in of thoughts of others must suppress and confine our own and indeed in the long run paralyze the… — 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
