“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Democracy means perfect equality of opportunity, especially in education; not the rotation of every Tom, Dick and Harry in public office.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Education is the reason why we behave like human beings. We are hardly born human. We are born ridiculous, malodorous animals. We… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share
“privately he composed—in French—a poem expressing his pleasure at having given the French a kick in the cul, which Carlyle delicately translated as “the… — Will Durant Copy Share
“And in the individual too, justice is effective coördination, the harmonious functioning of the elements in a man, each in its fit place and… — Will Durant Copy Share
