Quotes by : Will Durant

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

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

Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence....

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

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated....