Ariel Durant Quotes

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”

— Ariel Durant

“The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.”

— Ariel Durant

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

“It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.”

— 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

“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

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

— Ariel Durant

“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.”

— Ariel Durant

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

— Ariel Durant

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

— Ariel Durant

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

— Ariel Durant