A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side. Will Durant More Quotes by Will Durant More Quotes From Will Durant Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure. Will Durant romeperspectivechristian Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony. Will Durant gardencuriosityteacher As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it. Will Durant grewovercomingmen Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old. Will Durant landmaymen Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Will Durant bankingwisemen We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution. Will Durant economic-historyconcentration-of-wealthviews Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real. Will Durant progressrealmind Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game Will Durant learningplayergames Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Will Durant excessgovernmentprinciples It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. Will Durant politicalchangehome The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws. Will Durant concentration-of-wealthpoliticslaw The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Will Durant rely-uponpolicepast History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. Will Durant repeating-historyhistory-repeats-itselfhuman-nature If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. Will Durant revolutionmenpromise Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. Will Durant good-communicationspoken-wordgood-things The future never just happened. It was created. Will Durant futuremotivationalinspirational The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later feast, the bees that filled the comb with honey, the ants that laid up stores for a rainy day - these were among the first creators of civilization. It was they....who taught our ancestors the art of providing for tomorrow out of the surplus of today, or of preparing for winter in summer's time of plenty. Will Durant dogsummerart History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. Will Durant managehe-manmen Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death. Will Durant huntinggamesblood 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. Will Durant knowingsufferinginteresting
