~ Will Durant Quotes ~

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Will Durant Quotes


A prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher.
William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) 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.

Here are some famous quotes by Will Durant.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

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Education is the transmission of civilization.

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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

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

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The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

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

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

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

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

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Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.

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So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.