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Man Quotes by Johan Huizinga
- If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of…
- 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…
- 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…
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