Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day Will Durant More Quotes by Will Durant More Quotes From Will Durant Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths Will Durant progress liberty men A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. Will Durant moralist statesmen Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. Will Durant pale achievement doe Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. Will Durant adopted paganism christianity A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths. Will Durant philosophical philosophy civilization Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. Will Durant rome unity long We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. Will Durant excess freedom looks There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. Will Durant eugenics money age We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen. Will Durant government night hands No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. Will Durant work success men For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change. Will Durant turbulence missing civilization History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age. Will Durant sin age history Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. Will Durant hatred vices may The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet. Will Durant socialism east west Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action. Will Durant foresight haste action I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets. Will Durant darkness reason sun Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages. Will Durant ice-age ice age Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition, and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away. Will Durant sea civilization moving Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. Will Durant strong song fall Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God? Will Durant religious christian men
