Quotes by Will Durant

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

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

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

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.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

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.