The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“But before twenty is the joy of the body, and after thirty is the joy of the mind; before twenty is the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, in return for conquest, arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of the mature mind, the quiet… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Seek ye first the good things of the mind,” Bacon admonishes us, “and the rest will either be supplied or its loss… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The only dedication in one of the hosts of books I have had the privilege of knowing, is from the great contemporary… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is only charlatans who are certain. We know nothing of first principles. It is truly extravagant to define God, angels, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved… — 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
