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William James Durant
Geburtstag: 5. November 1885
Todesdatum: 7. November 1981
Andere Namen:ویل دورانت
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William James „Will“ Durant war ein US-amerikanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller.
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„We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.“
— Will Durant
Context: 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'.
p. 87. The quoted phrases within the quotation are from the Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, 4; Book I, 7.
„Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
— Will Durant
Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
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„How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.“
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
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„Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.“
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
„All the relations of men and women are being changed by this one factor“
— Will Durant
Context: The invention and spread of contraceptives is the proximate cause of our changing morals. The old moral code restricted sexual experience to marriage, because copulation could not be effectively separated from parentage, and parentage could be made responsible only through marriage. But to-day the dissociation of sex from reproduction has created a situation unforeseen by our fathers. All the relations of men and women are being changed by this one factor; and the moral code of the future will have to take account of these new facilities which invention has placed at the service of ancient desires.
Our Changing Morals, in The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny, (1929), Simon and Schuster, New York, ch. 5. p. 119.
„The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.“
— Will Durant
Context: The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
Will Durant, The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage page 459.
„Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths“
— Will Durant
Context: Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:
That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man;
That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship;
That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own;
That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and
That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.
