Quotes by Will Durant

Will Durant

Will Durant

American writer, historian, and philosopher

Lived from: 1885 - 1981

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 5 november 1885 Died: 7 november 1981

  • The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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  • A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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  • History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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  • As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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  • Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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  • Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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  • 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.
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  • Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
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  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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  • Education is the transmission of civilization.
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  • Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
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  • Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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  • Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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  • 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.
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  • Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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  • Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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  • 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.
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  • Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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  • Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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  • Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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  • Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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What are the most famous quotes from Will Durant?

The two most famous quotes from Will Durant are:

  • "A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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  • "History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When did Will Durant live?

Will Durant was born in 1885 and died in the year 1981.