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Author: Johan Huizinga
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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.
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Johan Huizinga
Culture means control over nature.
Culture means control over nature.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Johan Huizinga
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