"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully……" — Johan Huizinga
"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections."
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40 Quotes by Johan Huizinga
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its…
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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never…
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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…
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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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More Arranging Quotes
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The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way…
— Bashar al-Assad
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
— Max Frisch
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in…
— Unknown Author
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
— John Sterling
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Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to…
— Learned Hand
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Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone…
— Gene Spafford
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I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of…
— Diane Arbus
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That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.
— B.F. Skinner
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage,…
— Warren Zevon
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