“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.”
Will Durant“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.”
Will Durant, The Lessons of History“Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.”
Will Durant“Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ”
Will Durant“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”
Will Durant“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”
Will Durant“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”
Will Durant“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
Will Durant“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
Will Durant“Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.”
Will Durant