Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the… — Johan Huizinga Attraction Copy Share Image
“A népnyelv e kifinomult szellem számára mindent túl közvetlenné, túl személyessé, túl reálissá tett volna. Szüksége volt arra a homályos, távolságtartó, könnyű… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Art Copy Share Image
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular… — Johan Huizinga Confusion Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to… — Johan Huizinga Chains Copy Share Image
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment.… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Az Enchiridion alaphangja már olyan, amilyen a továbbiakban Erasmus életművének az alaphangja mindig marad: az az ember szól így, aki nem bírja… — Johan Huizinga Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Church Copy Share Image
“A bölcsesség úgy áramlik a balgasághoz, mint az ész az érzelmekhez. S a világban sokkal több az érzelem, mint az ész. Ami… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Bounds Copy Share Image
