"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions.……" — Johan Huizinga
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
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Johan Huizinga
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40 Quotes by Johan Huizinga
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
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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…
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which…
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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…
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be…
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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…
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