Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions…

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle…

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the…

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art…

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war…

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy…

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not…

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul…

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise…

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice…

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance…

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal…

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity…

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance…

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom…