Quotes by Will Durant

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

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.