Will Durant

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

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

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

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

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

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.