Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga America 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
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules… — Johan Huizinga Accepted 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 Abstraction 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
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. — Johan Huizinga Culture 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… — Johan Huizinga Colorful 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
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past. — Johan Huizinga Desire 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… — Johan Huizinga Animal 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… — Johan Huizinga Barbarism Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga 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
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with… — Johan Huizinga Against 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 Arise 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 Conception Copy Share Image
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. — Johan Huizinga Crude Copy Share Image
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind. — Johan Huizinga Analysis Copy Share Image
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. — Johan Huizinga Discipline 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
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
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga Culture 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
“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any… — Johan Huizinga Bible Copy Share Image
