Will Durant
Will Durant
William James "Will" Durantwas an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy"...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 November 1885
mother philosophy race
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.
liberty anarchy dies
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
history guessing prejudice
History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
art philosophy achievement
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
health important wealth
The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
liberty dictatorship license
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
people opiates communism
Communism is the opiate of the people.
philosophy giving
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
honesty fear integrity
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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In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.
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Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.