Honorary Quotes by Johan Huizinga

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

— Johan Huizinga

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

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

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

— Johan Huizinga

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

— Johan Huizinga

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

— Johan Huizinga

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

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

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

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

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

“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.”

— Johan Huizinga