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> [There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/there-might-be-a-fact-of-the-greatest-significance-reported-by/)

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## More by Jacob Burckhardt

> [To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/to-each-eye-perhaps-the-outlines-of-a-great-civilization-present-a/)

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> [The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-essence-of-tyranny-is-the-denial-of-complexity/)

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> [Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/great-men-are-necessary-for-our-life-in-order-that-the-movement-of/)

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> [Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/only-a-fairy-tale-calls-a-constant-condition-happiness/)

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> [The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-seventeenth-century-is-everywhere-a-time-in-which-the-state-s/)

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> [The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-biggest-mischief-in-the-past-century-has-been-perpetrated-by/)

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> [There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/there-might-be-a-fact-of-the-greatest-significance-reported-by/)

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> [History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/history-is-on-every-occasion-the-record-of-that-which-one-age-finds/)

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> [The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-state-incurs-debts-for-politics-war-and-other-higher-causes-and/)

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> [True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/true-universality-does-not-consist-in-knowing-much-but-in-loving-much/)

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> [Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/neither-in-the-life-of-the-individual-nor-in-that-of-mankind-is-it/)

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> [Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/power-is-of-its-nature-evil-whoever-wields-it/)

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> [Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/only-the-fairy-tale-equates-changelessness-with-happiness-permanence/)

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> [The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-more-recently-power-has-originated-the-less-it-can-remain/)

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> [In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/in-history-the-way-of-annihilation-is-invariably-prepared-by-inward/)

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