Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have accumulated the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“are much more beautiful in body than women. It is only a man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We shall never be able to do justice to Indian art, for ignorance and fanaticism have destroyed its greatest achievements, and have… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art: It arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Great gaps occur in the history of the art, because most of the early work was ruined by the climate, and much… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The dog that buried the bone which even a canine appetite could not manage, the squirrel that gathered nuts for a later… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — 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
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 Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
