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.
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.
- 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 … - 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 …
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much. - Jacob Burckhardt
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.
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…
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…
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'. - Jacob Burckhardt
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity. - Jacob Burckhardt
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.
History is still in large measure poetry to me. - Jacob Burckhardt
History is still in large measure poetry to me.
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. - Jacob Burckhardt
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
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