To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. Will Durant More Quotes by Will Durant More Quotes From Will Durant The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. Will Durant honesty fear integrity Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant tired mother memories Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all. Will Durant society fighting men 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. Will Durant time country people To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. Will Durant communication half art Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content. Will Durant heart animal men In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. Will Durant concentration-of-wealth progressive-society numbers The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. Will Durant triumph political acting The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. Will Durant health important exercise Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. Will Durant giving philosophy Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. Will Durant dust earth civilization Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. Will Durant belief doubt philosophy Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. Will Durant understanding wisdom knowledge Liberty is a product of order. Will Durant liberty products order The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God. Will Durant europe men america 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 In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. Will Durant garden joy teacher Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary. Will Durant fluctuation secret bankers Education is the transmission of civilization. Will Durant teaching education teacher In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply. Will Durant analysis lasts civilization When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. Will Durant liberty wisdom order
