Quotes by : Will Durant

...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise....

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with....

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and....

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches....

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear,....

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the....