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 Read Quote
We can’t put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. Johan Huizinga Read Quote
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Johan Huizinga Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote