"The biggest mischief in the past century has……" — Jacob Burckhardt
"The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims."
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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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History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
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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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