Johan Huizinga Quotes

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

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. - Johan Huizinga

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

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. - Johan Huizinga

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. - Johan Huizinga

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

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