No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. — Johan Huizinga Discipline 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 Aim Copy Share Image
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. — Johan Huizinga Ideas 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
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. — Johan Huizinga Easy Copy Share Image
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. — Johan Huizinga Crude 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 Culture Copy Share Image
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in… — Johan Huizinga Adaptive Copy Share Image
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and… — Johan Huizinga Coherence Copy Share Image
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small… — Johan Huizinga Cities Copy Share Image
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. — Johan Huizinga Betterment Copy Share Image
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have… — Johan Huizinga History Copy Share Image
“Megértettem, hogy a tanulásnak soha sincs vége, s olyan folyamatról van szó, amelyet szinte minden nap újra kell kezdenünk.” — Johan Huizinga Mint Copy Share Image
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects… — Johan Huizinga Battle 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 Cases 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
“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful,… — Johan Huizinga Play Copy Share Image
We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow… — Johan Huizinga Breeze 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 Abstract 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 Accepting 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
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging… — Johan Huizinga Arranging 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
“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
“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
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
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
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Average Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Mint Copy Share Image
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. — Johan Huizinga America Copy Share Image
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Fallen Copy Share Image
