Will Durant Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

2. All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya. Our Oriental Heritage

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

4. 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. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

5. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

6. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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

8. اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر. On the Meaning of Life