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Jacob Burckhardt
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“In the life of the mind they [the Greeks] reached frontiers which the rest of mankind cannot permit themselves to fall short of, at least in their attempts to acknowledge and to profit, even where they are inferior to the Greeks in the capacity for achievement. It is for this reason that posterity needs to study the Greeks; if we ignore them we are simply accepting our own decline.”
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their knowledge and their faculty of observation were extraordinary. By their study of the world the Greeks illuminate not only their own nature but that of all other ancient peoples; without them, and the phillhellenic Romans, there would be no knowledge of past times, for all other nations attended to nothing but themselves, their own citadels, temples and gods.”
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All subsequent objective perception of the world is only elaboration on the framework the Greeks began. We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak.”
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source