Will Durant Quotes About Chaos

Quotes about: Chaos

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

  Will Durant

  Order, Civilization, Liberty

  "The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers". Book by Will Durant, 1926.

• When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

  Will Durant

  Liberty, Chaos, Dictatorship

• Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

  Will Durant

  Art, Men, Order

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

• Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

  Will Durant

  Insecurity, Culture, Chaos

• Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

  Will Durant

  Real, Mind, Progress

  Will Durant, John R. Little (2002). “The greatest minds and ideas of all time”, Simon and Schuster

• I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

  Will Durant

  Thinking, Molecules, Majestic

  Will Durant (1978). “Transition”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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