91 Quotes by Johan Huizinga

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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.

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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.

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    We are living in a demented world. And we know it. It would not come as a surprise to anyone if tomorrow the madness gave way to afrenzy which would leave our poor Europe in a state of distracted stupor, with engines still turning and flags streaming in the breeze, but with the spirit gone.

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

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    All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

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    Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

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    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.

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    The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

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