Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, & Sayings

Will Durant

Popular Topics:

People | Life | Time | Man | Love | Work | Music | Mind | Women | Money | War | Truth | Power | Art | Government | Nature | Business | History | Family | Age | Society | Success

Popular Authors:

Anthony Robbins | Tennessee Williams | Steve Jobs | Ramakrishna | Henry Fielding | Albert Schweitzer | Carl Sandburg | Stephen Hawking | Karl Kraus | Walt Disney | Arthur C. Clarke

Popular Occupations:

Actors | Politicians | Philosophers | Musicians | Comedians | Scientists | Artists | Lawyers

Will Durant

Born: January 01, 1970

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian, writer, philosopher, teacher

Biography: William James Durant was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy, written in 1926, which one observer described as a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy.

Next

Will Durant

“A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Newsweek, Volume 64, 1964, p. 104

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: The Story of Civilization: Rousseau and revolution; a history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789, Will Durant, Ariel Durant, Simon and Schuster, 1967, p. 472

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1968, p. 54

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Distilled Wisdom, Alfred Armand Montapert, Prentice-Hall, 1964, p. 63

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: "What is Civilization?" Ladies' Home Journal, LXIII (January, 1946)

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: As quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: Story of Philosophy (2012 edition), Simon and Schuster - ISBN: 9781476702605

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

- Will Durant

Source/Notes: Story of Philosophy, Will Durant,Simon and Schuster, 2012 edition, p. 2 - ISBN: 9781476702605

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.”

- Will Durant

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Will Durant

“History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.”

- Will Durant

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

Next