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Will Durant Quotes: 7

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

  • The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

  • To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

  • Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

  • 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 in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

    The Story of Philosophy

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

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