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Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
— Johan Huizinga
To fill in all the gaps in my knowledge beforehand was out of the question for me. I had to write now, or not at all. And I wanted to write.
— 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.
— Johan Huizinga
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
— Johan Huizinga
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
— Johan Huizinga
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
— Johan Huizinga
Culture means control over nature.
— 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
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
— Johan Huizinga
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
— Johan Huizinga
What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
— Johan Huizinga
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
— 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.
— Johan Huizinga
You only live a short time ... and you are dead a long time.
— Johan Huizinga
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
— Johan Huizinga
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play ... culture itself bears the character of play.
— Johan Huizinga
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
— Johan Huizinga
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
— 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.
— Johan Huizinga
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
— 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
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
A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.
— Johan Huizinga
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
— Johan Huizinga
Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.
— Johan Huizinga
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
— Johan Huizinga
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
— Johan Huizinga
In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
— Johan Huizinga
All play means something.
— Johan Huizinga