Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will Durant

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

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

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

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

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Will Durant

The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Will Durant

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
Will Durant

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

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Will Durant

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

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant

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

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
Will Durant

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.
Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
Will Durant