"قال شوبنهور في وصف كتاب "العالم كارادة وفكرة">عندما فشلت المبيعات "ان كتابا كهذا اشبه بالمرآه, اذا نظر فيها حمار فلا ترجو ان يرى ملاكا - Will Durant

"It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.As quoted in "The Gentle Philosopher" Will Durant"

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic — a moral code independent of religion — strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?