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Johan Huizinga
December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945
Nationality: Dutch
Category: Historian

Culture means control over nature.

   

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

   

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

   

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

   

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

   

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

   

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

   

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

   

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

   

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

   

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

   

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.

   

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

   

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

   

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.

   

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

   

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