We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. - Will Durant

Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom — desire coordinated in the light of all experience — can tell us when to heal and when to kill. To observe processes and to construct means is science; to criticize and coordinate ends is philosophy: and because in these days our means and instruments have multiplied beyond our interpretation and synthesis of ideals and ends, our life is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. For a fact is nothing except in relation to desire; it is not complete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

This is the tragedy of almost every civilization — that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.

"قال شوبنهور "كيف يمكننا ان نفسر العقل بانه مادة ما دمنا لا نعلم المادة الا عن طريق العقل !!