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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    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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    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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    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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