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

The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

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

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

The more recently power has originated, the less it can remain stationary - first because those who created it have become accustomed to rapid further movement and because they are and will be innovators per se; secondly, because the forces aroused or subdued by them can be employed only through further acts ... ~ Jacob Burckhardt

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

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

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

The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress' ... The assumption is that the future will honour this relationship in perpetuity. The state has learned from the merchants and industrialists how to exploit credit; it defies the nation ever to let it go into bankruptcy. Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

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

The fates of people and of states, of entire civilizations, can depend on whether an extraordinary person can bring forth the proper strength of soul and action. Normal minds and spirits, no matter how numerous, cannot replace such a person. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

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

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity. ~ Jacob Burckhardt

Goodbye, Jacob, my brother...my son. ~ Stephenie Meyer

And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks. ~ Mira Jacob

For I choose to follow not men or men's doctrines, but God and the doctrines [delivered] by Him. For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians ~ Justin Martyr

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head. ~ Jacob Bronowski

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam's rib. Then there's Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types. ~ Clive Sinclair

Just like a butterfly, I had sprung from my cocoon for the first time. For my risk, I was rewarded with Jacob Bennett." - Laylla Jonson (Beneath the Blossom Tree) ~ L.B. Malpass

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own. ~ Jacob Zuma

My love for her is so great, that if all the leaves on all the trees were tongues, they could not declare it. ~ Jacob Grimm

Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'. ~ Jacob Needleman

For me, hardcore is simply unapologetic music, free of rules.
By that definition, we are a hardcore band. ~ Jacob Bannon

When I was thirty and perhaps forty, I did not want a wife. It was too much fun being single. ~ Jacob Ruppert

With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible. ~ Jacob Gelt Dekker

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. ~ Julius Wellhausen

Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ... of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, "In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist." The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it's not established once and for all; it's evolving. ~ Marianne Moore

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something. ~ Jacob Lawrence

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out. ~ Melina Marchetta

That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point. ~ Jacob M. Appel

Only one thing can keep something close over time: holding it there. Grappling with it. Wrestling it to the ground, as Jacob did with the angel, and refusing to let go. What we don't wrestle we let go of. Love isn't the absence of struggle. Love is struggle. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Jacob being sensitive is an endowment. Think about all you'd miss out on if you didn't feel things so deeply, or see things so clearly."
"But feeling good things deeply means you feel bad things deeply, too."
"Would you rather walk around oblivious to the meaning of things hidden under the surface and the opportunities to feel wonder and joy? Would you want to miss out on moments that take your breath away? ~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation. ~ Jacob Epstein

Everything changes, even the meaning of quotes..
Just read the same quote on, what may appear to be, both the last and the first day of your life. ~ Jacob J. Warming

You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it. ~ Jacob K. Javits

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language. ~ Jacob Grimm

History has shown more than once that when people surrender totalitarian powers to their rulers, they are inevitably exercised in the next big crisis. And let's not forget here that the next president who wields this power and who will be in charge of military might well be Hillary Clinton. ~ Jacob G. Hornberger

You can't just want to die.
You have to live it. ~ Jacob Scheier

flipped open. A stranger sat in the uncomfortable-looking chair next to his hospital bed, the pads of his fingers pressed together under his chin. "Who are you?" Jacob asked. "I'm your Uncle John. John Laudner," the man said. He leaned forward and extended a calloused palm. Jacob did not take the man's ~ G.P. Ching

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken. ~ Jacob Needleman

He shifted his weight, throwing his good leg off the bed as if he were going to try to stand.
"What are you doing?" I demanded through the tears. "Lie down, you idiot, you'll hurt yourself!" I jumped to my feet and pushed his good shoulder down with two hands. He surrendered, leaning back with a gasp of pain, but he grabbed me around my waist and pulled me down on the bed, against his good side. I curled up there, trying to stifle the silly sobs against his hot skin. ~ Stephenie Meyer

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her. ~ Jacob Latimore

What I've witnessed, managers are divisive and allow musicians to become clouded, irresponsible, and unaware of the world around them. ~ Jacob Bannon

They were indeed great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost. ~ Jacob Grimm

Promise me something. Anything. One day let me take pictures of you to show you just how beautiful you are. Let me show you how I see you. ~ F.L. Jacob

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool. ~ Jacob Weisberg

Jacob, is something wrong? Is Isabella okay?"
"Probably. She is not well today. It could be a normal thing for a human female, but since she is usually as resistant to common ailments now as we are, she is nervous. I figured Gideon could ease her mind."
Noah missed the wince that crossed his friend's face that would have given away the indignant argument flying through the Enforcer's thoughts. Jacob's female counterpart huffily took umbrage to his claims of exactly who it was that was nervous and who had insisted on seeking Gideon, because it certainly had not been her.
"Tell her I hope she feels better," Noah said, his fondness for Bella quite clear in his tone. "Bear with her, old friend. She's breaking new ground. It can be pretty frightening to play Eve for an entire race."
"Do not worry. When it comes to my Bella, I would do anything to see to her happiness. That includes making others do anything to see to her happiness," Jacob said. He meant the words, of course, but he was hoping they'd help sooth someone's bristling pride.
"I'm sure Gideon is going to love that," Noah laughed.
Jacob grinned, altering gravity so that he began to float up from the floor.
"If you see Gideon before I do, will you tell him to come to Bella?"
"Of course. Tell her I said to start behaving like a real Druid or I - " Noah was cut off by a sharp hand motion and a warning expression from the Enforcer. It came a little too late, however, if Jacob's pained ~ Jacquelyn Frank

Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right - all that falls to them is so much gain - all their geese are swans - all their cards are trumps - toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter? ~ Jacob Grimm

I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. ~ Meagan Good

Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath. ~ Jacob M. Braude

Unilever, Nestle and SAB Miller are all taking a long-term approach to investing in sustainable resource consumption. Each is driving through better resource management, which is expected to yield positive returns in the future. ~ Jacob Rothschild

The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal. ~ Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere. ~ Tiffanie DeBartolo