Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage Quotes

[V]irtue is not news, and virtuous men, like happy nations, have no history.

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

[R]eligion arises not out of sacerdotal invention or chicanery, but out of the persistent wonder, fear, insecurity, hopefulness and loneliness of man.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.