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Jacob Burckhardt quotes: History is still in large measure poetry to me.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: It is the historian's function, not to make us clever for the next time, but to make us wise forever.

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

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: Only a fairy tale calls a constant condition 'happiness'.

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

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.

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: Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

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

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: History is on every occasion the record of that which one age finds worthy of note in another.

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

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

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

Jacob Burckhardt quotes: There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.