Quotes by Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last pre — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
The matter of sedition is of two kinds: much poverty and much discontentment....The causes and motives of sedition are, — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to history, and endeav — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we waver and are unconscio — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of physical effort have acc — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like those dramas so bel — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Grow strong, my comrade … that you may standUnshaken when I fall; that I may knowThe shattered fragments of my song will — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers