Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Daily Dose

From Snakecharmers in Texas: Essays 1980 - 1987, by Clive James

JACOB BURCKHARDT

"Nevertheless there was no intention to be soothing in Burckhardt's belief - expounded in Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen - that pessimism leads to a false view of history.  Pessimism he merely distrusted.  Optimism he loathed."

From On the Library Coffee-Table

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