When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANT Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the q...
WILL DURANT Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
WILL DURANT Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANT The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than the...
WILL DURANT It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILL DURANT Perhaps our supercilious disgust with existence is a cover for a secret disgust with ourselves; we h...
WILL DURANT Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
WILL DURANT Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILL DURANT Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANT Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
WILL DURANT We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.
WILL DURANT Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANT Nothing is new except arrangement.
WILL DURANT When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
WILL DURANT Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANT Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of...
WILL DURANT No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
WILL DURANT In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery th...
WILL DURANT Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, ...
WILL DURANT Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANT There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
WILL DURANT Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANT To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANT Chaos results when the world changes faster than people
WILL DURANT In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery t...
WILL DURANT Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos
WILL DURANT Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANT Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sore...
WILL DURANT Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Thro...
WILL DURANT I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANT Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANT We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; w...
WILL DURANT If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he i...
WILL DURANT Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
WILL DURANT To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to sa...
WILL DURANT The political machine works because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thin...
WILL DURANT Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
WILL DURANT The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi...
WILL DURANT The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANT There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war
WILL DURANT Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle
WILL DURANT Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANT And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor ...
WILL DURANT How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
WILL DURANT History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
WILL DURANT Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance
WILL DURANT Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in...
WILL DURANT Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our o...
WILL DURANT Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom
WILL DURANT As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANT Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art
WILL DURANT Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent
WILL DURANT Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard
WILL DURANT Inquiry is fatal to certainty
WILL DURANT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability des...
WILL DURANT Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions
WILL DURANT A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANT We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
WILL DURANT Kant is the last person in the world whom we should read on Kant.
WILL DURANT Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand
Unshaken when I fall; that I may know
The s...
WILL DURANT The worship of Mary transformed Catholicism from a religion of terror - perhaps necessary in the Dar...
WILL DURANT Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative vitality of nature but a su...
WILL DURANT It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I havenot had time to remake the ...
WILL DURANT The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANT When people ask me to compare the 20th century to older civilizations, I always say the same thing: ...
WILL DURANT Love is a deception practice by nature.
WILL DURANT The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes and fears rather than with their mi...
WILL DURANT Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance ...
WILL DURANT Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization tea...
WILL DURANT To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANT Perhaps Gandhi failed as saints are likely to fail in this very hostile, selfish and Darwinian world...
WILL DURANT The State, which had so often called for a reform of the Church, was now part of the evils, for the ...
WILL DURANT No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized
WILL DURANT From the point of view of morals, life seems to he divided into two periods; in the first we indulge...
WILL DURANT The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind...
WILL DURANT Civilization is the order and freedom promoting cultural activity
WILL DURANT Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
WILL DURANT India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother o...
WILL DURANT Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law
WILL DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILL DURANT Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, sho...
WILL DURANT A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist
WILL DURANT When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near
WILL DURANT We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; w...
WILL DURANT History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice
WILL DURANT Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art: It arises in hypothesis and flows into achieveme...
WILL DURANT Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
WILL DURANT Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our o...
WILL DURANT Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable i...
WILL DURANT A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean
WILL DURANT It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them ...
WILL DURANT The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...
WILL DURANT And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...
WILL DURANT [Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...
WILL DURANT Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,...
WILL DURANT We must steel ourselves against utopias and be content with a slightly better state.
WILL DURANT What is beauty? why do we admire it? why do we endeavor to create it? [...]
[B]eauty is any qua...
WILL DURANT Education is the transmission of civilization.
ARIEL AND WILL DURANT My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm...
KEVIN DURANT I'm not a guy that's going to brag or feel like I'm better than the group.
KEVIN DURANT Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like...
KEVIN DURANT A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
ARIEL DURANT Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
KEVIN DURANT You hear all these stories about, 'There's one in a million guys that make it to the NBA and...
KEVIN DURANT I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I ...
KEVIN DURANT I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want ...
KEVIN DURANT I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what ...
KEVIN DURANT I like something simple and traditional, like dinner and a movie. The best way to get to know someon...
KEVIN DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing...
ARIEL DURANT In Detroit, in a city that in many cases the world has rejected, that's where God shows up. Ever...
CLARK DURANT I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I...
KEVIN DURANT I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inn...
CLARK DURANT I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'...
KEVIN DURANT When people are used to you doing something, they want you to stay in that lane.
KEVIN DURANT People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it's the opposite. The majority of the...
KEVIN DURANT We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILLIAM DURANT I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm st...
KEVIN DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
ARIEL DURANT I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing t...
KEVIN DURANT Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do i...
WILLIAM DURANT It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...
ARIEL DURANT My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for th...
KEVIN DURANT The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
ARIEL DURANT Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been...
KEVIN DURANT I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside.
KEVIN DURANT Education is the transmission of civilization.
ARIEL DURANT This was a young man who always knew what he was going to do. You could tell this young man was goin...
FRANK DURANT When they told me it was Israel, I was shocked. The thing that hits me so hard is I hadn't realized ...
FRANK DURANT He's an individual who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. This reflects what this country ...
FRANK DURANT We got to get those runners in. This is a hell of a time to be going into a slump.
JOE DURANT We had opportunities to score runs early, but we didn't do it. The guys that we usually count on to ...
JOE DURANT It will be more like linebackers than most of us look like now. That's the trend anyway, better athl...
JOE DURANT We fought to the end. That grand slam broke our back, though.
JOE DURANT He (Austin) just missed his spot and it got out over the plate. With a big kid like that, he (Jimene...
JOE DURANT We're going to get there. We're just not playing with any confidence right now. We got to get better...
JOE DURANT We are thin. We are just going to have to go with the people we got.
JOE DURANT It was good to see some fight out of our team. We waited until the last inning to fight. We just hav...
JOE DURANT Abercrombie kept us off balance early but we had our chances. This is a young ball club and we knew ...
JOE DURANT They really bounced back and scored some runs. I'm just glad we got a W out of it. We'll take them a...
JOE DURANT Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILLIAM J. DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILLIAM J. DURANT It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to r...
WILLIAM J. DURANT The family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILLIAM J. DURANT Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT We are trying to set up a budget that you can address, that you can look at and see where things are...
MANAGER HENRY DURANT Right now, everybody is in one category, but I gradually want to change that to where each category ...
MANAGER HENRY DURANT I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.
WILL PACKER I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try...
WILL SMITH And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some...
WILL SELF I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane o...
WILL SMITH I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I coul...
WILL SMITH I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. ...
WILL POULTER It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent...
WILL SELF One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern ner...
WILL SELF The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wan...
WILL FERRELL I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran t...
WILL MCDONOUGH When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And...
WILL FERRELL I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in th...
WILL POULTER Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that th...
WILL POULTER My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia...
WILL HOBBS I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS