Will Durant - The Story of Philosophy (1926)

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; 'these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions'; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit: 'the good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life... for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy'.

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Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.

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

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We see matter and we miss energy; we think that we know what matter is; but when at the heart of the atom we find energy, we are bewildered, and our categories melt away.

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Science is analytical description, philosophy is synthetic interpretation. Science wishes to resolve the whole into the known.

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Philosophy... is the front trench in the siege of truth. Science is the captured territory.

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