Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself … - Jacob Burckhardt

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After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Jacob Burckhardt

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.

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

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

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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.

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The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

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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.

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