Honor the extraordinary legacy of Will Durant on November 5 with these curated quotes, philosophical reflections, and heartfelt birthday tributes celebrating their monumental impact on Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian, Philosopher & Author of The Story of Civilization.
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people fighting and screaming; historians must record what happened on the banks where people built homes and loved.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
