Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid furthe… - Jacob Burckhardt
The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid furthe…
- Jacob Burckhardt
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete way… - Jacob Burckhardt
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete way…
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. - Jacob Burckhardt
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. - Jacob Burckhardt
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist han… - Jacob Burckhardt
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist han…
Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it. - Jacob Burckhardt
Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellec… - Jacob Burckhardt
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellec…
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. - Jacob Burckhardt
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end … - Jacob Burckhardt
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end …
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