Quotes by Will Durant

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.

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

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

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 exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.