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
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
“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
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
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 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 tudat, hogy szavunk az egész világhoz azonnal eljuthat, olyan ösztönzés, mely öntudatlanul is hatással van a megnyilatkozás módjára, s olyan gazdagság… — Johan Huizinga Mint 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
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
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
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
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
