Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
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 Read Quote
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga Read Quote