"True universality does not consist in knowing much……" — Jacob Burckhardt
"True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much."
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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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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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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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More Consist Quotes
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
— Charles Babbage
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of…
— Louise Brooks
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Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
— Coco Chanel
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can…
— Cesar Chavez
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.
— Unknown Author
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Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley…
— John Playfair
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Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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