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.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.