Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#discovery #ignorance #our #own #progressive

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. ↗

— Will Durant

#life-is-evil #schopenhauer #death

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

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

— Will Durant

#science #art

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. ↗

— Will Durant

#unity

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. ↗

— Will Durant

#freedom #equality

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. ↗

— Will Durant

#commanding-nature #eternal-recurrence #history #history-repeating-itself #science

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. ↗

— Will Durant

#liberty #freedom

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. ↗

— Will Durant

#faith #philosophy #rome #faith

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. ↗

— Will Durant

#begins #ends #every #philosophy #science