"A new culture can only grow up in……" — Johan Huizinga

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"A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity."

— Johan Huizinga

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40 Quotes by Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its…
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never…
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with…
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands…
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which…
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment…
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be…
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for…

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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of… — Hannah Arendt
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because… — Aristotle
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your… — Antonin Artaud
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or… — Michelle Bachelet
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really… — Erykah Badu
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to… — Joan Baez
A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on… — Pearl Bailey

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