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
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga 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 Copy Share Image
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused… — Johan Huizinga 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 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who… — Johan Huizinga 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
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
