Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Seek ye first the good things of the mind,” Bacon admonishes us, “and the rest will either be supplied or its loss… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The conquering troops plundered the wealthy capital, and found the booty so abundant “that every private man in the allied army became… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration… — 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
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