Quotes Johan Huizinga

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a muc...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In ...

Culture means control over nature....

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humil...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the ...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of rac...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in hum...

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging fac...

History is the interpretation of the significance that the p...

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it....

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of relig...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of...

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains o...

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way u...

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred cha...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some oth...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essentia...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism ...

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the re...

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all cultur...

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial sugges...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith ...

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the n...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, ...