Philosophy Quote by Will Durant — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.”

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

“اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر.”

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

“For he who can foresee with his mind is by nature intended to be lord and master; and he who can work only with his body is by nature a slave.”

“Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.”

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.”

“A man's imperative command is not only to say "no" in cases where "yes" would be a sign of "disinterestedness," but also to say "no" as seldom as possible. One must part with all that which compels one to repeat "no," with ever greater frequency. The rationale of this principle is that all discharges of defensive forces, however slight they may be, involve enormous and absolutely superfluous losses when they become regular and habitual. Our greatest expenditure of strength is made up of those small and most frequent discharges of it. The act of keeping things off, of holding them at a distance, amounts to a discharge of strength,—do not deceive yourselves on this point!—and an expenditure of energy directed at purely negative ends. Simply by being compelled to keep constantly on his guard, a man may grow so weak as to be unable any longer to defend himself.”

“There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley”