"The eternal gulf between being and idea can……" — Johan Huizinga
"The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination."
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40 Quotes by Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga has 40 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a…
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There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it,…
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I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have…
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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one…
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I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing…
— Carlisle Floyd
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one…
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The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting…
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To reaffirm the statement on the choosing of my identity, I come from two beautiful cultures which I have embraced,…
— Radmilla Cody
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All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
— Bernardine Dohrn
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the…
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