“The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.” MomentsStoriesOrderCultureMoralCivilizationIndiaComplexesTalesIslamicDelicateEvidentConquestDiscouragingBarbariansInvadingMultiplying Author:Will Durant
“I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate organism on the fringe of biological evolution , where the wave of life bursts into individual, sparkling, and multicolored drops that gleam for a moment... only to vanish forever.” MomentsLightSeemsIndividualForeverEvolutionWaveComplicatedDelicateFlashOrganismsFringeGleamSparklingBiological EvolutionWave Of Life Book:The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Source: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.” LifeMomentsLife IsDoorsMovementArmsShadowSeasonsEdgesLegsAutumnDelicateRapidsClosingAutumn DaysSnowfallClosing Doors Author:Alan Lightman
“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.” MomentsPerfectSilenceOughtUnderstoodMysteriousDelicateSecrecyPietyDelicacyFriendship LoveRare Moments Author:Novalis