95 result(s) for Quotes By Will Durant.
"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."
"The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education."
"The greatest question of our time is: How can we maximize the quality of human life?"
"There is nothing in evolution that forecloses the possibility of one day evolving a superlative human entity."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
"The value of philosophy is not self-evident; it must be discovered by our own experience."
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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision."
"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
"We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
"The past is the present unrolled for understanding; the present is the future rolled up for action."
"Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men."
"The aim of education is to make you think and help you analyze, not to dictate what you should think."
"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
"No man can be in health, in body and mind, who does not have the mastery of his diet."
"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even East vs. West; it is whether men can bear to live without God."
"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself."
"The measure of a civilization is the extent to which the organs of self-control have been developed."
"It is not living that matters, but living rightly."
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
"Nothing is permanent in the universe; all things flow."
"Education is the transmission of civilization."
"The best work never was and never will be done for money."
"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and our decision."
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds."
"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."
"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err."
"There is no victory at bargain basement prices."
"The greatest question in life is whether to have a steak or seafood for dinner."
"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."
"It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives."
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"Man became a reasoning animal long before he became a reasonable one."
"The future never just happened. It was created."
"The lover of excellence is prone to being excellent."
"Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
"Forgiveness is always a part of the answer to the distress of our times."
"War is one of the constants of history, and has not diminished with civilization or democracy."
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
"You are not merely a bit of humanity - you are humanity in miniature."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within."
"There is no investment with a return so high as the education of young minds."
"In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."
"The ability of the average person could be doubled if their situation demanded it."
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
"The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character."
"The aim of education should be to teach us how to think rather than what to think."
"Morality is the custom of one’s country and the current feeling of one’s peers."
"Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale."
"Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away."
"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
"Caution is the partner of wisdom."
"Progress is the child of trial and suffering."
"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."
"Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity."
"In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, every joy and every sorrow leaves an indelible mark."
"The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves."
"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their feelings instead of with their minds."
"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting, and doing things historians usually record; while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry."
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
"The aim of education is to make you think and to think critically."
"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God."
"I think the ability of the West to dominate the world over the last few centuries has been the result of chaos."
"That the body is a machine is clear to our children, but that it is more than a machine is not."
"The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research."
"In the end, nothing is lost. Every action, good or evil, has its repercussions."
"Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."
"Sixty years ago, I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
"There is nothing in man but love and faith, courage and kindness, generosity and sacrifice."
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."
"The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning."
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