Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. - Will Durant
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. - Will Durant
Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. - Will Durant
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. - Will Durant
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. - Will Durant
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean. - Will Durant
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day. - Will Durant
Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change. - Will Durant
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints. - Will Durant
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So is Aristotle. Spinoza is there and so is Kats. Shelly and Byron adn Sam Johnson are there waiting to tell us their magnificent stories. All you have to do is walk in the library door and the great company open their arms to you. They are so happy to see you that they come out with you into the street and to your home. And they do what hardly any friend will-- they are silent when you wish to think. - Will Durant
You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along. - 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
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again. - Will Durant
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done. - Will Durant
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