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Will Durant Quotes

Will Durant quotes

American Historian November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981

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Will Durant quote: "The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the..."
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. Will Durant
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. Will Durant
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will--... Will Durant
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "The family is the nucleus of civilization."
The family is the nucleus of civilization. Will Durant
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than..."
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God. Will Durant
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. Will Durant
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? Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It..."
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. Will Durant
But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "The trouble with most people is that they think with their..."
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant
Will Durant quote: "In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil,..."
In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever. Will Durant
Grow strong, my comrade? that you may stand. Unshaken when I fall; that I may know. The shattered fragments of my song will come. At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin. Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. Will Durant

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