Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““We are choked with News and starved of History.”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“News which was once difficult and expensive to obtain today surrounds us like the air we breathe.” — Ian Hargreaves Copy Share Image
“history does not tolerate a vacuum. If incidences of famine, plague and war are decreasing, something is bound to take their place on the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.” — Keith Jenkins Copy Share Image
“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the… — H.K. Savage Copy Share Image
“We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is… — Robert James Brown Copy Share Image
“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.” — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“history’s just old news, prophecy that’s well past its sell-by date.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes… — John Ashbery 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 present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been;… — Will Durant Copy Share
“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
