From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. - Will Durant
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God. - Will Durant
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. - Will Durant
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. - Will Durant
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. - Will Durant
History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. - Will Durant
The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet. - Will Durant
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. - Immanuel Kant
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. - Immanuel Kant
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. - Isaac Asimov
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. - Isaac Asimov
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