Quote

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

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
Emotional
Animal
Feelings
Heart
Men
Deceived
Occasionally
Rational
Content

More quotes by Will Durant

Image
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Will Durant
Image
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Will Durant
Image
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Will Durant
Image
Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
Will Durant
Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will Durant
Image
Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.
Will Durant
Image
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
Will Durant
Image
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant
Image
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant
Image
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
Will Durant
Image
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.
Will Durant
Image
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
Will Durant
Image
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
Will Durant
Image
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
Will Durant
Image
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant
Image
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Will Durant
Image
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
Will Durant
Image
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
Image
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.
Will Durant
Image
The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant