Frases de Will Durant
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William James Durant fue un filósofo, escritor e historiador estadounidense de los siglos XIX y XX. Conocido ante todo por su obra The Story of Civilization narrada conjuntamente con su esposa Ariel. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. noviembre 1885 – 7. noviembre 1981   •   Otros nombres ویل دورانت
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“Ámense unos a otros.”

Will Durant, a los 92 años de edad, resumió lo que había aprendido en una vida de estudiar la historia con estas pocas palabras sencillas.

“En general, obraron como si el cristianismo fuera un mito… que no habían de tomar en serio los de mente emancipada.”

Haciendo referencia al humanismo y a los humanistas del renacimiento.

“Los pensadores de Europa —la vanguardia del pensar europeo— ya no discutían sobre la autoridad del papa; debatían sobre la existencia de Dios.”

En 1572 un informe titulado Discourse on the Present State of England (Discurso sobre el estado actual de Inglaterra) señaló: «El reino está dividido en tres partidos: los papistas, los ateos y los protestantes. Se favorece a los tres por igual: al primero y al segundo porque, puesto que son muchos, no nos atrevemos a causarles disgusto». Según otro cálculo, había 50.000 ateos en París en 1623.
Fuente: The Story of Civilization: Part VII—The Age of Reason Begins (La historia de la civilización: Parte VII.—Empieza la era de la razón).

Will Durant: Frases en inglés

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy (1926)

“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”

Fuente: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Civilization

Preface
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), VI - The Reformation (1957)

“On the maturation of a woman* "She is a woman now, and not an idle girl, not a domestic ornament or a sexual convenience anymore."”

Will Durant libro The Story of Civilization

Fuente: The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), VI - The Reformation (1957), p.g. 14

“Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.”

When asked, at the age of 92, if he could summarize the lessons of history into a single sentence. As quoted in "Durants on History from the Ages, with Love," by Pam Proctor, Parade (6 August 1978) p. 12. Durant is quoting Jesus (from John 13:34) here, and might also be quoting Jiddu Krishnamurti: "Love is the most practical thing in the world. To love, to be kind, not to be greedy, not to be ambitious, not to be influenced by people but to think for yourself — these are all very practical things, and they will bring about a practical, happy society."

“Nothing should more deeply shame the modern student than the recency and inadequacy of his acquaintance with India.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Civilization

The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), I - Our Oriental Heritage (1935)

“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy (1926)

“Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Civilization

As quoted in Midnight by Dean Koontz
The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), XI - The Age of Napoleon (1975)

“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Civilization

Fuente: The Story of Civilization (1935–1975), II - Life of Greece (1939), Ch. XII : Work and Wealth in Athens, p. 277 http://books.google.com/books?id=l2wgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22no+man+who+is+in+a+hurry+is+quite+civilized%22&pg=PA277#v=onepage

“Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.”

Will Durant libro The Story of Philosophy

The Story of Philosophy (1926)

“A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.”

Fuente: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls

“By mind I mean the totality of perceptions, memories and ideas in an organism.”

Fuente: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls

“Time, subjectively, is the conscious sequence of perceptions.”

Fuente: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls