"The title of hero is bestowed by the……" — Johan Huizinga
"The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
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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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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 Bestowed Quotes
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have…
— Sholom Aleichem
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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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Prayer is not appointed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed…
— Arthur W. Pink
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The…
— Susan Sontag
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife.…
— Hugh Laurie
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