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Explore our hand-picked selection of 187 inspiring quotes by Will Durant.

About Will Durant

  • Born: November 5, 1885
  • Died: November 7, 1981
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Which is now a more hopeful statement than swift intended it to be.
    Funny Hopeful Aviation
    Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
    Order Civilization Promoting
    Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
    Army Vegetables Vegetarian
    A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
    Statesmen Moralist
    Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
    Broken Heart Truth Minorities
    Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
    Progress Environment
    Education is the transformation of civilisation
    Transformation Civilisation
    So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
    Running Men Circles
    Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
    Wisdom War Light
    That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the gospels.
    Christian Jesus Powerful
    Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
    Men Progress Liberty
    Nature has never read the declaration of independence. it continues to make us unequal.
    Nature Equality Independence
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