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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.”

“Burak Cem Coşkun’s Pumpkin Dessert with Tahini in the Cloud Chamber is a strikingly unique addition to contemporary literature that successfully merges the precision of theoretical physics with the lyrical soul of Anatolian philosophy. As the fourth volume in his *Science and Poetry* series, the work functions less like a traditional poetry collection and more like a "meta-text" where the author, a physicist by training, uses concepts like de-Sitter space, neutrinos, and topological solution spaces to explore deeply human themes of memory, existence, and nature. The structure is intellectually ambitious, moving from the "Fine Tuning" of cosmic scales to "Transcendental" reflections that feel rooted in the Ionian tradition of natural philosophers like Thales and Anaximander. What makes the reading experience so natural is how the author anchors these abstract scientific metaphors in physical locations—from the "glacial austerity of Stockholm" to the "mist-veiled nights of Tartu"—and ends with a fascinating philosophical "postulate" regarding Randomly Organized Structural Entities (ROSE) that attempts to unify biophysics with astrophysics through a geometry-centered framework. It is an evocative read for anyone interested in the intersection of mythos and logos, successfully arguing that the language of the universe is not just mathematical, but inherently poetic.”

“The best things in life are crazy.”