Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 05. November 1885 |
Geburtsort | US |
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Beschreibung | William James Durant (/dəˈrænt/; November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He became best known for his work The Story of Civilization, which contains 11 volumes and details the history of eastern and western civilizations. It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975. He was earlier noted for The Story of Philosophy (1926), described as "a groundbreaking work that helped to popularize philosophy". |
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
