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Johan Huizinga quotes

Dutch Historian December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945

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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
Johan Huizinga quote: "Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way..."
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. Johan Huizinga
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
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
Johan Huizinga quote: "Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more..."
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Johan Huizinga
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
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
Johan Huizinga quote: "You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time. Johan Huizinga
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
Johan Huizinga quote: "Culture means control over nature."
Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga
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
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
Johan Huizinga quote: "In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of..."
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. Johan Huizinga
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. Johan Huizinga
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. Johan Huizinga

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