+ Education is the transmission of civilization. Author, August 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Will Durant, Civilization, Education, Transmission, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
+ As long as there is poverty there will be gods. Author, October 21, 2023January 2, 2025, Will Durant, Belief, Inequality, Religion, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Decline, History, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Change, History, Human nature, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Achievement, Knowledge, Worthiness, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Control, Environment, Progress, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Certainty, Faith, Tolerance, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? Author, September 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Will Durant, Goodness, History, Humanity, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches. Jean Cocteau Artist · France