"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we……" — Johan Huizinga
"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
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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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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and…
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Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and…
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find…
— Michele Bachmann
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Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.
— Daniel Barenboim
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My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.
— Theodor Adorno
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Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.
— Conrad Black
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Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been…
— Jo Brand
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
— Bill Bryson
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Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.
— Sandra Bullock
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