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Johan Huizinga Quotes

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning Picture Quote #1
Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order Picture Quote #1
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices Picture Quote #1
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture Picture Quote #1
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment Picture Quote #1
Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury Picture Quote #1
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience Picture Quote #1
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment Picture Quote #1
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images Picture Quote #1
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment Picture Quote #1
History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form Picture Quote #1
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child’s soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man’s wisdom for the child’s Picture Quote #1
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The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination Picture Quote #1
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play... it arises in and as play, and never leaves it Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout Picture Quote #1
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind Picture Quote #1
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them in a simple form  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child’s soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man’s wisdom for the child’s  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play... it arises in and as play, and never leaves it  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) 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  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout  (Johan Huizinga Quotes) In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind  (Johan Huizinga Quotes)
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