quotes by Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
— Will Durant

"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.
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— Will Durant

"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. "
— Will Durant

"Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous."
— Will Durant

"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
— Will Durant

"How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself."
— Will Durant (The Story of Philosophy)

"Every science begins as philosophy and ends at art."
— Will Durant

"We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?"
— Will Durant

""Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance!""
— Will Durant

"The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God."
— Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
— Will Durant