Will Durant Quotes

I think the power of a grandchild is it taps an instinct that people later in life also have towards... the world of nonprofits or charities. They want to leave a better place.

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

No generation can escape history.

Consider what importance to society the chastity of women is. Upon that all the property in the world depends. We hang a thief for stealing a sheep; but the unchastity of a woman transfers sheep and farm and all from the right owner.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

We have to build the country that we want to see our future children and grandchildren live in.

The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.

A great industrial nation may conquer the world in the span of a single life, but its Achilles' heel is time. Its children, what of them?

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

The past is the father of the present.