If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. — Johan Huizinga Culture Copy Share Image
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. — Johan Huizinga Culture Copy Share Image
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga History 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
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Art 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
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through. — Johan Huizinga Belief Copy Share Image
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always… — Johan Huizinga Aim 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 America 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 Bells 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
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public… — Johan Huizinga Angle 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 Culture Copy Share Image
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of… — Johan Huizinga Conditions Copy Share Image
Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working… — Johan Huizinga Education 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
“A bölcsesség úgy áramlik a balgasághoz, mint az ész az érzelmekhez. S a világban sokkal több az érzelem, mint az ész. Ami… — Johan Huizinga Mint Copy Share Image
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means… — Johan Huizinga Bounds Copy Share Image
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth… — Johan Huizinga Church Copy Share Image
“Az Enchiridion alaphangja már olyan, amilyen a továbbiakban Erasmus életművének az alaphangja mindig marad: az az ember szól így, aki nem bírja… — Johan Huizinga Erasmus Copy Share Image
When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and… — Johan Huizinga Bad fortune Copy Share Image
The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable… — Johan Huizinga Abolish 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 Concepts 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
“Az ebben a korszakban kibontakozó levélműfaj s mai idők újságjának szerepét töltötte be, vagy még inkább az irodalmi folyóiratét, amely szinte közvetlenül… — Johan Huizinga Mint 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 Mint 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
“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
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
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. — Johan Huizinga Brain Copy Share Image
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga Arise 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
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga Culture Copy Share Image
