Author: 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.

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

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 can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

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

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.

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

Culture means control over nature.

Culture means control over nature.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Johan Huizinga

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