Will Durant Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

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  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

• In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

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  Philosophy, Distance, Two

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Art, Philosophy, Achievement

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Philosophy, Giving

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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  Philosophy, Giving, Perspective

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

• Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

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  Philosophy, Doubt, Belief

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

• It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

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  Philosophy, India, Chess

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

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  Life, Freedom, Philosophy

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

• A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Civilization

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

• In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

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  Philosophy, People, Youth

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

• There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

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  Philosophy, Real, Mind

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