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
harmony strife universal
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
civilization missing needs
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.
doe individual mankind
The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
insecurity culture chaos
Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
haste action foresight
Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
husband divorce men
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.
civilization stoic born
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
enemy born freedom-and-equality
Freedom and equality are naturan born enemies.
ice age ice-age
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
tools rulers
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
civilization missing turbulence
For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.
religion atheism maintaining
There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.
hunting blood games
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
rome long unity
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.