Will Durant

“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”

“Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.”

“The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.”

“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”

“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”

“Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves i...”

“اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.”

“Traditions and dogmas rub one another down to a minimum in such centers of varied intercourse; where there are a thousand faiths we are apt to become sceptical of them all.”

“Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.”

“Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.”

“La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.”

“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”

“Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into parts, the organism into organs, the obscure into the known. It does not i...”

“To observe processes and construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy”

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.”