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Johan Huizinga Quote: “In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.”

51. “In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.”

52. “We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.”

53. “If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.”

54. “Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.”

55. “An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “There is no more striking symptom of the decline of the play-factor than the disappearance of everything imaginative, fanciful, fantastic from men’s dress after the French Revolution. Long.”

56. “There is no more striking symptom of the decline of the play-factor than the disappearance of everything imaginative, fanciful, fantastic from men’s dress after the French Revolution. Long.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”

57. “Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “The Japanese samurai held the view that what was serious for the common man was but a game for the valiant. Noble.”

58. “The Japanese samurai held the view that what was serious for the common man was but a game for the valiant. Noble.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Play is battle and battle is play.”

59. “Play is battle and battle is play.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.”

60. “Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”

61. “Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”

62. “People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.”

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

— Johan Huizinga

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

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

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”

65. “Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”

67. “Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.”

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.”

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

— Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga Quote: “We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.”

69. “We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.”

— Johan Huizinga

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