And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.
Will DurantThe South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
Will DurantPower dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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 DurantEvery science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will Durant