Author: Johan Huizinga

Quotes

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

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

Culture means control over nature.

Culture means control over nature.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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