History Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Language Philosophy
“silence is God’s first language; everything else is a poor translation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think” — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Everything has an older meaning. All words have their secrets. Spells and gods are buried in the thicket of language.” — Shannon Phillips Copy Share Image
“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.” — Elizabeth Johnston Copy Share Image
“Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will” — Belcampo Copy Share Image
“There is only one language, the language of the Heart. There is only one religion, the religion of Love.” — Sri Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Silence is a language in itself. Perhaps the loudest and most beautiful of them all!” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” — Eckhart Tolle 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
