Today's Bakhtin Quote

Actually, today's quote is Bakhtin quoting Konrad Burdach:

Humanism and Renaissance are not the product of knowledge. They do not arise because scholars discover the lost monuments of antique literature and art, and strive to bring them back to life. Humanism and the Renaissance were born from the passionate and boundless expecation and striving of an aging epoch; its soul, shattered to its very depths was thirsting for a new youth.