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
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. — Johan Huizinga Discipline 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
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — Johan Huizinga America Copy Share Image
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. — Johan Huizinga Crude Copy Share Image
“Minden hőstett forrása a háború, a legbalgább dolog a világon.” — Johan Huizinga Mint Copy Share Image
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is… — Johan Huizinga Aristocratic Copy Share Image
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. — Johan Huizinga Arranging Copy Share Image
“A népnyelv e kifinomult szellem számára mindent túl közvetlenné, túl személyessé, túl reálissá tett volna. Szüksége volt arra a homályos, távolságtartó, könnyű… — Johan Huizinga Mint Copy Share Image
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular… — Johan Huizinga Confusion 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
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
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense… — Johan Huizinga Age Copy Share Image
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of… — Johan Huizinga Abandonment Copy Share Image
“Azt, amikor a szellem széttöri a bilincseit, menekülést keres, és szabadságra vágyik. Ez tehát a boldogság, egyben azonban elszakadás a földi dolgoktól,… — Johan Huizinga Mint 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Mint 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
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who… — Johan Huizinga Bestowed Copy Share Image
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. — Johan Huizinga Advertising 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
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to… — Johan Huizinga Dissolution 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
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
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
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
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
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. — Johan Huizinga Betterment 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
“To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now,… — Johan Huizinga Gaps Copy Share Image
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of… — Johan Huizinga Doe 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 America Copy Share Image
