Ariel Durant

“Man, not earth, makes civilization.”

— Ariel Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

— Ariel Durant

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

— Ariel Durant

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

— Ariel Durant

“[H]istory is baroque.”

— Ariel Durant

“History is subject to geology.”

— Ariel Durant

“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.”

— Ariel Durant

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

— Ariel Durant

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

— Ariel Durant

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

— Ariel Durant

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

— Ariel Durant

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem…

— 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

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and,…

— Ariel Durant

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

— Ariel Durant

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

— Ariel Durant

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining,…

— Ariel Durant