The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. Ariel Durant More Quotes by Ariel Durant More Quotes From Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. Ariel Durant women memorable civilization It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. Ariel Durant philosopher now-and-then infinity Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. Ariel Durant rebel tyrants today No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. Ariel Durant civilised men Man, not the earth, makes civilization. Ariel Durant earth men civilization 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 technology opportunity character The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. Ariel Durant radical valuable conservative Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. Ariel Durant fool pages trying The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history. Ariel Durant fundamentals law science When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe. Ariel Durant knighthood chivalry order If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well. Ariel Durant destiny personality character 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 childhood quality writing Education is the transmission of civilization. Ariel Durant transmission education civilization
