Quotes By Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.