What did Will Durant mean by: Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done. - Will Durant Historian · USA Copy
+ A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Cat, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Suffering, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Aviation, Funny, Hopeful, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Cultural creation… begins where chaos and insecurity end. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Will Durant, Chaos, Culture, Insecurity, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. Feraz Zeid, October 18, 2023December 26, 2023, Will Durant, Success, Work, 0 - Will Durant Historian · USA
+ Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Will Durant, Banking, Wise, 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
+ 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
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France