What did Will Durant mean by: The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions. - Will Durant Historian · USA Copy
+ Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Desert, Ignorance, Mirages, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 24, 2023, Will Durant, Past, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Will Durant, Environmental, Morality, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Harmony, Strife, Universal, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Good Things, Spoken Word, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God? Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Christian, religious, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ The finger that turns the dial rules the air. Feraz Zeid, July 26, 2023December 12, 2023, Will Durant, Air, Fingers, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Apathy, Civilization, Decay, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. - Louise Bourgeois Sculptor · France
The two men stared at each other. Assumptions were made, judgments rendered, dicks measured. - Jennifer Estep Author
I was looking for acceptance, love, and that’s why I became present in everything I did. - Jeppe Hein Artist · Denmark
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom’s care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare! - William Julius Mickle Poet · Scotland
In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks. - William Lyon Phelps Professor · USA