Drug Quote by Will Durant

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

“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.”

— Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

— Will Durant

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

— Will Durant

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

— Will Durant

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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