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

“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On the contrary, a man could be without a doubt lit with the strength, the peace, and the knowledge of the gods, his gods, but when or if the devils grow weary in unsuccessful attempts to torment him, they begin tormenting his loved ones, or, if not his loved ones, anyone who may attempt to grasp his philosophies. No matter how godly he may become, God is, in the end, his only hope and his only grace for the pressures built around him - it is left up to a higher authority and a more solid peace and a wider love to eclipse not just one's own evils but all evils for goodness to ultimately matter. If all men were gods, each being would dwell in a separate prison cell, hopeless, before finally imploding into nothingness.”

“And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as “penilosophy.”

“We join spokes together in a wheel,”

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.”