"History is the interpretation of the significance that……" — Johan Huizinga

"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."

— 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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature… — Aristotle
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the… — Neil Armstrong
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.… — Julian Assange
Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural… — David Attenborough
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural… — David Attenborough

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