威爾·杜蘭特
普利策獎和自由勛章獲得者
The aim of education is not to make men carpenters, but to make carpenters men.
教育的目的不是把人變成木匠，而是把木匠變成人。
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even the East versus the West; it is whether man can bear to live without God.
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 the story of what happened on the banks.
文明是一條有岸的河流。河流有時充滿了人們殺戮、偷竊、喊叫和做歷史學(xué)家通常記錄的事情的血，而在岸上，不被注意，人們建造家園，做愛，撫養(yǎng)孩子，唱歌，寫詩，甚至雕刻雕像。文明的故事是發(fā)生在岸上的故事。
The knowledge of the past stays with us to spur us on to new achievements.
過去的知識與我們同在，激勵我們?nèi)〉眯碌某删汀?/div>
History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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