Will Durant Quotes

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.