Ariel Durant Quotes

#1. We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.

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#2. When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe ...

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

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

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

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

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#7. Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

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#8. The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

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#9. 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.

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#10. No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

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#11. Education is the transmission of civilization.

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