“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.” MenWorldWayOrderOur LivesMovementFitGreat MenWorld HistoryObsoleteInconsequential Author:Jacob Burckhardt
“Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.” LifeMeanPainHappinessDeathChangeMovementTalesLife ChangingFairyScholarFairy TaleFairytalePermanenceParalysis Author: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.” FirstsForceHistoryMovementEmployedAccustomedRapidsInnovatorsStationary Book:Judgements on History and Historians Source: Judgements on History and Historians
