Ariel Durant Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Ariel Durant
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. — Ariel Durant
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own. — Ariel Durant
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ... — Ariel Durant
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization. — Ariel Durant
We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities. — Ariel Durant
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. — Ariel Durant
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. — Ariel Durant
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. — Ariel Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization. — Ariel Durant
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. — Ariel Durant