91 Quotes by Johan Huizinga
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There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
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Culture means control over nature.
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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.
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The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
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Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
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In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.
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Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.
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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
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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.
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