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In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply (Will Durant Quotes)
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals (Will Durant Quotes)
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion (Will Durant Quotes)
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous (Will Durant Quotes)
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship (Will Durant Quotes)
Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus. You may think that’s a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you’ll eventually get along (Will Durant Quotes)
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day (Will Durant Quotes)
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty (Will Durant Quotes)
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars (Will Durant Quotes)
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game (Will Durant Quotes)
The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate (Will Durant Quotes)
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws (Will Durant Quotes)
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. (Will Durant Quotes)
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe ‘s languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. (Will Durant Quotes)
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart’s content. (Will Durant Quotes)
For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give significant form to the chaos of experience? (Will Durant Quotes)
Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief. (Will Durant Quotes)
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts. (Will Durant Quotes)
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 (Will Durant Quotes)
As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. (Will Durant Quotes)
There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. (Will Durant Quotes)
But now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. (Will Durant Quotes)
If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history (Will Durant Quotes)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance (Will Durant Quotes)
The family is the nucleus of civilization (Will Durant Quotes)
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war (Will Durant Quotes)
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions (Will Durant Quotes)
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity (Will Durant Quotes)
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art (Will Durant Quotes)
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice (Will Durant Quotes)