These are our compilation of Famous Will Durant Quotes. He was an American Writer, Philosopher and Historian best known for his works, “The Story of Philosophy” and “The Story of Civilization ”
“Caesar’s armies marched on vegetarian foods.”
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
“Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.”
“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
“We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.”
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.”
“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”
“Education is the transmission of civilization.”
“It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
“To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.”
“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
“Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.”
‘We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries”
“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard”
“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”
“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
“Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.”
“As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.”
“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
“Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity”
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”
“The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”
“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.”
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
“Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ”
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near”
“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”
“We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong? ”
“It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”
“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.”
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. ”
“Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change”
“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years”
“The family is the nucleus of civilization. ”
“Education is the transmission of civilization. ”
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art”
“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. ”
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.”
“Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.”
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