"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted……" — Johan Huizinga
"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution."
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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…
More Combatted Quotes
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