I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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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.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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