Quotes by Johan Huizinga

About Johan Huizinga:

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
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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.

Johan Huizinga

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

Johan Huizinga

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

Johan Huizinga

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

Johan Huizinga

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

Johan Huizinga

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

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

Johan Huizinga

Culture means control over nature.

Johan Huizinga

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 eve...

Johan Huizinga

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

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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

Author Bio

  • NameJohan Huizinga
  • DescriptionDutch historian
  • BornDecember 7, 1872
  • DiedFebruary 1, 1945
  • CountryNetherlands
  • ProfessionCultural Historian; Historian