What did Will Durant mean by: War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy. Will Durant Historian · USA Copy
To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Harmony, Strife, Universal, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Chaos, Liberty, Order, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Hunger, Liberty, Order, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Desire, Knowledge, Soul, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Will Durant, Assimilation, Religion, Transformation, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Will Durant, Discovery, Education, Ignorance, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Will Durant, Action, Communication, Honesty, 0 Will Durant Historian · USA
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. François Rabelais Author · France