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
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
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
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
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. — Johan Huizinga Betterment 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
“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
“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
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
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
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images. — Johan Huizinga Art 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
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
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
“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
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
Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still… — Johan Huizinga America 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
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
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
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
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. — Johan Huizinga Ideas Copy Share Image
