Will Durant

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

Will Durant

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

Will Durant

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Will Durant

The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is precisely the sign of their incapacity for action.

Will Durant

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

Will Durant

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

Will Durant

There is no humorist like history.

Will Durant

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

Will Durant

This is the tragedy of almost every civilization-that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.

Will Durant

Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.

Will Durant