Author: Johan Huizinga

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Culture means control over nature.

Culture means control over nature.

- Johan Huizinga

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