Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. ↗

— Will Durant

#chaos #civilization #dies #grows #liberty

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. ↗

— Will Durant

#country #enough #fool #large #may

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. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

The family is the nucleus of civilization. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #nucleus

Education is the transmission of civilization. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #transmission

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. ↗

— Will Durant

#begins #ends #every #philosophy #science

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. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #freedom #great #great discovery #i

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

#asks #because #case #his #laws

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ↗

— Will Durant

#fears #hopes #minds #most #people