Quotes by Will Durant

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

#Knowledge

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little...

#Time

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will...

#Life

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative...

#Belief, #God, #History

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it; it remained...

#Drinking, #Drinks

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

#Education, #Ignorance

Men forget that a value judgment has a raison d'être only as a preparation for...

#Judgement, #Mankind

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...

#Mind

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

#Will Durant

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

#Certainty

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his...

#Will Durant

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate...

#Will Durant