Author: Johan Huizinga

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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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