Quote

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

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
Every
Flourished
Reminding
Consolation
Offers
Sin
Age
History

More quotes by Will Durant

Image
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
Image
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
Will Durant
Image
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Will Durant
Image
History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.
Will Durant
Image
The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
Will Durant
Image
I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.
Will Durant
Image
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.
Will Durant
Image
Every state begins in compulsion but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
Will Durant
Image
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
Will Durant
Image
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
Image
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West it is whether men can bear to live without God.
Will Durant
Image
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
Will Durant
Image
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
Will Durant
Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
Will Durant
Image
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
Image
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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