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Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Culture means control over nature (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
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