Long Quote by Johan Huizinga Download Open image “You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.” — Johan Huizinga ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Long Long time Short time Time
Life is short but you have plenty of time to live it if you don't waste a single second — Debbie Pfisterer Copy Share Image
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Nyugalom az egyén számára, könyvektől körülvéve, ez a legvágyottabb állapot.” — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
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Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
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