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Form Quotes by Johan Huizinga
- History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
- An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
- History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in…
- Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and…
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