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Jacob Burckhardt Quotes
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Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition ‘happiness’ (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
History is still in large measure poetry to me (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole (Jacob Burckhardt Quotes)