Quotes by Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

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

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.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.