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Johan Huizinga has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in…
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to…
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular…
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public…
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have…
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always…
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to…
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The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.
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Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
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One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so…
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The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of…
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It is true that some have greater power of resistance than others, but everyone has the power to close his heart against…
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