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The eternal gulf between being...

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

A superstition which pretends ...

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 93 quotes

Culture must have its ultimate...

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

From whichever angle one looks...

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 93 quotes

History can predict nothing ex...

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 93 quotes

If we are to preserve culture ...

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

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

Whether the aim is in heaven o...

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 93 quotes

In Europe art has to a large d...

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

The second fundamental feature...

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

Play is older than culture, fo...

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

The spirit of playful competit...

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 93 quotes

A new culture can only grow up...

A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

You can deny, if you like, nea...

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

Revolution as an ideal concept...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

The repudiation of the primacy...

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 93 quotes

The susceptibility of the aver...

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

In order to begin an analysis,...

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

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All seemingly profound thinkin...

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

If, then, this civilization is...

If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

Johan Huizinga 93 quotes

People accept a representation...

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent 'the past' and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.

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