Johan Huizinga Quotes

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and ...

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

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

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about i...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the...

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for devia...

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never...

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple c...

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple c...

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in...