...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

— Will Durant

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

— Will Durant

Civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew…

— Will Durant

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

— Will Durant

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather our heritage, and offer it to our children.

— Will Durant

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

— Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

— Will Durant

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

— Will Durant

Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk.

— Will Durant

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

— Will Durant