When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.
Ariel DurantMozart 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 DurantIt is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Ariel DurantIf 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 DurantOnly a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.
Ariel DurantThe present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
Ariel DurantA great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Ariel DurantThe 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