Conditions Quote by Jacob Burckhardt Download Open image “Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.” — Jacob Burckhardt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Constant Fairy Fairy tale Happiness Tales
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things. — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a… — Louis Binstock 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
History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another. — 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
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 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
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
