Quotes By Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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 thinks laws in his own case superfluous.