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

“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.”

“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.” (Will Durant, Story of Civilization, pg 1, vol. 1)”

“Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.”

“In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.”

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

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”