Quote

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Will Durant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Streets
Freedom
Living
Look
Looks
Excesses
Take
Broadway
Excess
Street

More quotes by Will Durant

Image
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
Will Durant
Image
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Will Durant
Image
Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
Will Durant
Image
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
Will Durant
Image
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
Will Durant
Image
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
Image
Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals
Will Durant
Image
As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
Will Durant
Image
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
Will Durant
Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
Will Durant
Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
Will Durant
Image
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant
Image
Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game
Will Durant
Image
As to harmonizing the theory of evolution with the Biblical account of creation, I do not believe it can be done, and I do not see why it should be. The story of Genesis is beautiful, and profoundly significant as symbolism: there is no good reason to torture it into conformity with modern theory.
Will Durant
Image
Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
Will Durant
Image
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
Will Durant
Image
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
Will Durant
Image
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
Will Durant
Image
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Will Durant
Image
Often your face is your autobiography
Will Durant