Quotes Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist....

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy....

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is ...

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

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change...

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural ...

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance....

Education is the transmission of civilization....

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its ba...

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art....

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable aga...

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice....

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fa...

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that...

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress o...

Inquiry is fatal to certainty....

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the ti...

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

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to la...

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions....

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours...

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It co...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a goo...

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of...

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us ...