Top 28 Burckhardt Quotes
#1. When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.
Tahir Shah
#4. Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.
Charlie Chaplin
#6. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....
Titus Burckhardt
#7. There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.
Jacob Burckhardt
#8. Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#9. 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
#10. Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.
Jacob Burckhardt
#12. Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#13. History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.
Jacob Burckhardt
#14. 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.
Jacob Burckhardt
#15. I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
Jacob Burckhardt
#18. Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
Jacob Burckhardt
#19. Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.
Jacob Burckhardt
#20. It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.
Jacob Burckhardt
#22. There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart.
What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.
Dan Zadra
#23. One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity
Titus Burckhardt
#24. It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities.
Titus Burckhardt
#26. How shall I raise dead men up to plow fields that are fallow? How shall I plant young olive trees?"
Mikel smiled, and it was a beautiful smile. "One tree at a time," He said.
Jo Graham
#27. True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.
Jacob Burckhardt
#28. A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.
Titus Burckhardt
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