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
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity. — Johan Huizinga Culture Copy Share Image
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. — Johan Huizinga 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
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. — Johan Huizinga History Copy Share Image
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
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 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
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
“Megértettem, hogy a tanulásnak soha sincs vége, s olyan folyamatról van szó, amelyet szinte minden nap újra kell kezdenünk.” — Johan Huizinga 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
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
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
People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent "the… — Johan Huizinga 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
Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the… — Johan Huizinga 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 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 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
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 title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. — Johan Huizinga 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
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 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
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 susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. — Johan Huizinga Advertising 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
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
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
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public… — Johan Huizinga 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 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
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
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
