Quotes By Will Durant

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

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.