Category - Johan Huizinga

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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?

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

– Johan Huizinga

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.

– Johan Huizinga

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.

– Johan Huizinga

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.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

– Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

– Johan Huizinga

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