Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will DurantTags: education
How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.
Will DurantTags: schopenhauer ennui life-is-evil
We have here the fundamental problem of ethics, the crux of the theory of moral conduct. What is justice? -shall we seek righteousness, or shall we seek power? -is it better to be good, or to be strong?
Will DurantThe greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.
Will DurantTolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Will DurantSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will DurantCivilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will DurantTo speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. . . let us be above such transparent egotism.
Will DurantScience is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Will DurantTags: science life knowledge misattributed-to-kant paraphrasing-herbert-spencer
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will DurantTags: science philosophy
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