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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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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Will Durant
Born:
November 5, 1885
Died:
November 7, 1981
(aged 96)
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