Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT