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Human Quotes by Johan Huizinga
- Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
- History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
- Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their…
- Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
- Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of…
- History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the formin which they have been anticipated.
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis