Will Durant Quotes

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

I've learned what it feels like to lose, believe me. But I think, in the end, that is just going to make winning that much better.

I want to be one of the best players in the game.

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

I'm going to show you my faults, I'm going to show you my insecurities, I'm going to be real.

I want to be a champion.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

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

If you wish to be loved, be modest; if you wish to be admired, be proud; if you wish both, combine external modesty with internal pride.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

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

The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.

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.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

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

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

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

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

My mom just wants to make sure that my heart is always in whatever I do and I'm in things for the right reasons.

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

I don't have to be anybody I'm not.

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!

I'm like a chameleon. I adapt to my situation. It's very slowed down here. I like it that way. I'm a guy that's very reserved, quiet and shy myself.

I look at my jersey and see the NBA logo, I'm like, 'I didn't think I'd be here.'

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

I'm an old-school type of guy.

Jimmer Fredette is the best scorer in the world!!

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Paul created a theology of which none but the vaguest warrants can be found in the words of Christ.

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

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.