The Age of Reason Begins Quotes

“Internal concord varies inversely with external peace.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“though born in a university town, he seems to have had no college training; he remained unchastened and uncluttered by classics, and had to pick his knowledge of life from living.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“if adultery, swearing, cheating, and Sabbath breaking could lead a man to heaven, the whole parish would be saved.27”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“until a man grow into twenty-three years, he for the most part, though not always, is wild, without judgment, and not of sufficient experience to govern himself.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“wars determine theology and philosophy, and the ability to kill and destroy is a prerequisite for permission to live and build.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“his greatest pictures are landscapes, in which man is as minor an incident as in Chinese painting or modern biology.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“right would not be heard unless it spoke with guns.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“In the broil of Europe between the Reformation (1517) and the Peace of Westphalia (1648), this collective competition used religion as a cloak and a weapon for economic or political ends.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“AS long as he fears or remembers insecurity, man is a competitive animal.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“Adjustment to a changing environment is the essence of life, and its price.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“what Thoreau said of newspapers—that if you merely change the names and dates, the contents are always the same. Nearly”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“an indignant man makes a poor historian.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“under every constitution the whales will eat the fish.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“The past is helpless in the hands of the present, which repeatedly remolds it to the hour’s whim.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“nothing is certain except death, usually after a toothless, eyeless, tasteless old age.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“she received all the education she could stand, including Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, but her charm survived.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“the dizzy goddess of the hour became a disillusioned housekeeper, dedicated to children and chores, and the race survived.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII

“politics was—as always—a contest of minorities to determine which should rule the majority.”
― Will Durant, The Age of Reason Begins: The Story of Civilization, Volume VII