Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Will Durant

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Will Durant

For every deliberate death there are thousands of indeliberate births.

Will Durant

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Will Durant

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Will Durant

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Will Durant

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Will Durant

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Will Durant

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Will Durant