Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Will Durant - Page 4

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

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.