Author: Johan Huizinga

Quotes

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

- 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.

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

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

- Johan Huizinga

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

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

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

- 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.

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

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

- Johan Huizinga

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

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

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

- Johan Huizinga

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