Will Durant Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

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  Love, Motivational, Faith

• 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.

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  Civilization, History, Savages

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

• The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.

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  Civilization, History, Ruins

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The Lessons of History”

• History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

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  History, Age, Sin

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

• History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

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  History, Prejudice, Guessing

• History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

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  History, Rich, Made

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1968). “The lessons of history”, Simon & Schuster

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