Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to… — Johan Huizinga 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
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is… — Johan Huizinga 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
He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense. — Johan Huizinga 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
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga 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 the triumphs… — 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 freely accepted,… — Johan Huizinga 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 Copy Share Image
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — 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 can judge… — 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 Indian, should… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them… — 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 the treasures… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
