Will Durant Quotes

There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Song

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• Do good 'cause God wants you to be happy. When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God, really. You're doing it for yourself because that's what makes God happy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Happy

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Character
  • Christian

• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Progress
  • Name
  • Determined

• If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Song
  • Throw

• I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Baby
  • Forget
  • Rap

• No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Why

• O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• All the gang of those who rule usHope our quarrels never stopHelping them to split and fool usSo they can remain on top.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Fool
  • Gang

• In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Die

• As conservatives, we cannot just concede education over to the Democrats. We really need to be actively involved. And that's why I've been such a proponent of school choice and the other options that are out there, because the Left is clearly out there driving the agenda, trying to shape the minds of the next generation.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Trying
  • School
  • Why

• He essentially did not answer the Roe v. Wade question.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Roe v. Wade

• Greatest American Hero, I really dug that as a kid, because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Kids

• There is no real philosophy until the mind turns around and examines itself.

  

  Will Durant
  • Mind
  • Philosophy
  • Examines