Will Durant

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

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

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

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

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

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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.

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

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

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

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.