Quotes by Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history. — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek phi — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
The story of the "bondage" in Egypt, of the use of the Jews as slaves in great construction enterprises, their rebellion — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselv — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature. — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion t — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hope — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
The first source of art, then, is akin to the display of colors and plumage on the male animal in mating time; it lies i — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundre — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya. — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civil — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations togethe — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous specta — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage
[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man. — Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage