Famous Will Durant Quotes

  • Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind. – Will Durant

    Make wisdom human to the adolescent mind.– Will Durant

  • All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya. – Will Durant

    All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.– Will Durant

  • but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. – Will Durant

    but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.– Will Durant

  • The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history. – Will Durant

    The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.– Will Durant

  • Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one. – Will Durant

    Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.– Will Durant

  • The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past. – Will Durant

    The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.– Will Durant

  • The family is the nucleus of civilization. – Will Durant

    The family is the nucleus of civilization.– Will Durant

  • [W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear. – Will Durant

    [W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear.– Will Durant

  • There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. – Will Durant

    There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.– Will Durant

  • [S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature. – Will Durant

    [S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.– Will Durant