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.”

“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.”

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

“اما هر کار می‌کنی، از فلسفه نمیر.”

“Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes; but he must first find out another earth to stand upon.”

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”

“Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart.”

“We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.”

“On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.”

“Съвестта е онзи глас Божий в нас, онова огледало, в което ние се оглеждаме и виждаме своите недостатъци.”