Age Quote by Jacob Burckhardt Download Open image “History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.” — Jacob Burckhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Every occasion History Notes Occasions Records Society Worthy
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the… — Frederick Jackson Turner Copy Share Image
You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
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… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image