Will Durant Quotes - Page 8

Quotes about:

• The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate.

  Will Durant

  Husband, Divorce, Men

  Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

• Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

  Will Durant

  Progress, Environment

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

  5 Copy quote

• A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

  Will Durant

  Statesmen, Moralist

  9 Copy quote

• I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

  Will Durant

  Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

  Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

  6 Copy quote

• It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

  Will Durant

  Virtue, Oversight, Packages

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.814, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

• Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

  Will Durant

  Men, Progress, Liberty

  Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

• That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

  Will Durant

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Will Durant (1944). “The Story of Civilization...: Caesar and Christ”

  6 Copy quote

• Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

  Will Durant

  Wisdom, War, Light

  Will Durant (1961). “Story of Philosophy”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

• So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

  Will Durant

  Running, Men, Circles

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

  Will Durant

  Funny, Hopeful, Aviation

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2011). “The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

• Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

  Will Durant

  Broken Heart, Truth, Minorities

  15 Copy quote

• Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

  Will Durant

  Army, Vegetables, Vegetarian

  20 Copy quote

Page 8 of 8

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin