Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working… — Johan Huizinga Educator 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
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
“Megértettem, hogy a tanulásnak soha sincs vége, s olyan folyamatról van szó, amelyet szinte minden nap újra kell kezdenünk.” — Johan Huizinga 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
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
William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For… — Johan Huizinga Ambiguous 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 second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. — Johan Huizinga Culture 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
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga History 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
“Azt, amikor a szellem széttöri a bilincseit, menekülést keres, és szabadságra vágyik. Ez tehát a boldogság, egyben azonban elszakadás a földi dolgoktól,… — Johan Huizinga 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
“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
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga Fallen 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
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
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. — Johan Huizinga Brain 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 Writing 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
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
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
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
