"History is on every occasion the record of……" — Jacob Burckhardt
"History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another."
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Jacob Burckhardt
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11 Quotes by Jacob Burckhardt
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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…
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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…
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The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that…
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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.
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The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have…
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In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a…
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The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human…
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History is still in large measure poetry to me.
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To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which…
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