"The spirit of playful competition is, as a……" — Johan Huizinga
"The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it."
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Johan Huizinga
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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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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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