Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Category Archive: Will Durant
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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.