Will Durant

Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

Will Durant

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Will Durant

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

Will Durant

Utopias of equality are biologically doomed, and the best that the amiable philosopher can hope for is an approximate equality of legal justice and educational opportunity.

Will Durant

War is a nation’s way of eating.

Will Durant

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

Will Durant

We are choked with news and starved of history.

Will Durant

When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant