Quotes by : Will Durant

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

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.

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

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

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?....

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own....

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