“One of the lessons of history is that the gods can be silent in many languages.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself. — 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
“But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power,… — 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
“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
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy… — 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
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“When Zeno, who did not believe in slavery, was beating his slave for some offense, the slave pleaded, in mitigation, that by… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole.… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“[Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that… — 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… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“If there is any intelligence guiding this universe, philosophy wishes to know and understand it and reverently work with it; if there… — 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
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“we want to seize the value and perspective of passing things, and so to pull ourselves up out of the maelstrom of… — 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
“..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
“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life. One is that of… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“History is, above all else, the creation and recording of that heritage; progress is its increasing abundance, preservation, transmission, and use. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy… — 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
“All this is, of course, the old philosophic distinction between reason and passion; but Spinoza adds vitally to Socrates and the Stoics.… — 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
![“[Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that a young country has no use for philosophers. It was characteristic of him that he made parallel lists of reasons for and against the move, giving each reason a…” quote by Will Durant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ac/will-durant-948_philosophy_herbert-spencer-was-ready-in-those-days_596502.jpg)
