Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Will Durant

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself!

Will Durant

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man’s past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

Will Durant

Ideally parentage should be a privilege of health, not a by-product of sexual agitation.

Will Durant

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

Will Durant

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

Will Durant

It is a glorious privilege to be alive. Neither scientific analysis nor a multitude of words will describe.

Will Durant

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

Will Durant