Will Durant Quotes about Philosophy

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Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Doubt, Belief

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Giving, Perspective

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Giving

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Real, Mind

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Will Durant

Mother, Philosophy, Race

"The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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

Will Durant

Art, Philosophy, Achievement

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Will Durant

Philosophy, India, Chess

"The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1930.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Distance, Two

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

Will Durant

Philosophy, People, Youth

Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Will Durant

Life, Freedom, Philosophy

Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

A history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.

Will Durant

Philosophy, Philosophical, Civilization

Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.44, Simon and Schuster