Will Durant

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

Will Durant

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Will Durant

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

Will Durant

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Will Durant

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Will Durant

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

Will Durant

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.

Will Durant

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns round and examines itself.

Will Durant

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Will Durant

To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and to rule one’s self.

Will Durant