Will Durant Quotes
- Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. Become Respectable
- If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and… Anarchist
- Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. Four
- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Desire
- Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Desert
- The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last… Another Human
- History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. Guessing
- As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. Anarchy
- Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Basic
- Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. Continues
- We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed… American
- Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. Begins
- Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. Adjust
- Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. Always Originates
- Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Acceptance
- The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. Admit
- There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. Age
- A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. Afford
- Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. Activity
- Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. Became