Famous Quotes / Will Durant
18 Quotations by Will Durant
- 1. Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
- 2. Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
- 3. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- 4. In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery th ...
- 5. It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is secur ...
- 6. It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r ...
- 7. Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
- 8. Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand ...
- 9. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
- 10. Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we h ...
- 11. Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our o ...
- 12. The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ...
- 13. The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations
- 14. The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
- 15. There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
- 16. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to sa ...
- 17. We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
- 18. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.