Here is a fulfillment of long centuries of civilization and culture; here, in romantic love, more than the triumph of thought or the victories of pow… - Will Durant

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt — particularly to doubt one’s cherished beliefs, one’s dogmas and one’s axioms.