Jacob Burckhardt Quotes

#1. Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Jacob Burckhardt

#2. History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Jacob Burckhardt

#3. Just in case you haven't heard it in a while, I Love You. My deep felt love for all creatures living includes precious beings like you!

Ace Antonio Hall

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

Jacob Burckhardt

#8. History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

Jacob Burckhardt

#9. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Mark Twain

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

Jacob Burckhardt

#13. I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.

Kara Swisher

#14. You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind

Timothy Leary

#15. Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

Jacob Burckhardt

#16. Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Jacob Burckhardt

#17. It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

Jacob Burckhardt

#18. The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Jacob Burckhardt

#19. My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

Takashi Murakami

#20. She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.

Siri Hustvedt

#21. My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

Jimmy Cliff

#22. I'm made in the Dominican. I'm from baseball country.

Robinson Cano