"History is still in large measure poetry to…" — Jacob Burckhardt
"History is still in large measure poetry to me."
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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 on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
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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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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
— Hannah Arendt
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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