Will Durant Quotes

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is not a good thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn't be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It's a surprise to me that this hasn't happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking - that's tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I'll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.

I feel like an old boxer. The brain's gone, but I can still move around.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.