The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. — Johan Huizinga Ideas Copy Share Image
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — Johan Huizinga America Copy Share Image
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. — Johan Huizinga Discipline Copy Share Image
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. — Johan Huizinga Conception Copy Share Image
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga America Copy Share Image
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any… — Johan Huizinga Bible Copy Share Image
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga Abstraction Copy Share Image
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment… — Johan Huizinga Art Copy Share Image
William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“A tudat, hogy szavunk az egész világhoz azonnal eljuthat, olyan ösztönzés, mely öntudatlanul is hatással van a megnyilatkozás módjára, s olyan gazdagság… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure… — Johan Huizinga Barbarism Copy Share Image
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“The word "school" has a curious history behind it. Meaning originally "leisure" it has now acquired precisely the opposite sense of systematic… — Johan Huizinga Children Copy Share Image
“A reneszánsz szellemének egyik legfőbb jellegzetessége a valóság figyelemre méltó tényei utáni határtalan tudásvágy s e tények befogadásának korlátlan mértéke. Az emberek… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and… — Johan Huizinga America Copy Share Image
“For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle, dyutamandalam,… — Johan Huizinga Game-theory Copy Share Image
He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to… — Johan Huizinga Absolutes Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Animal Copy Share Image
“Az ebben a korszakban kibontakozó levélműfaj s mai idők újságjának szerepét töltötte be, vagy még inkább az irodalmi folyóiratét, amely szinte közvetlenül… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils?… — Johan Huizinga End of the world Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. — Johan Huizinga Balance Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga Culture Copy Share Image
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
