Will Durant
Will Durant
William James "Will" Durantwas an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 November 1885
Will Durant quotes about
teacher garden joy
Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
knowledge knowledge-and-power liberty
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
order liberty products
Liberty is a product of order.
forever knows repeats
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
art communication diplomats
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
civilization soul dies
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
tools rulers
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
book eye night
If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
secret bankers fluctuation
Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
war struggle rome
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.
inspirational life positive
Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day
broke fought grand slam
We fought to the end. That grand slam broke our back, though.
confidence playing
We're going to get there. We're just not playing with any confidence right now. We got to get better and the only way we are going to get better is to keep playing.
known pitching thin
When we scheduled these games, we thought we were going to have mid-week starters. If I had known we'd be this thin with our pitching staff, I wouldn't have scheduled these games.