Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga, was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth7 December 1872
mean ethical-standards understanding
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.
order heaven earth
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.
war europe history
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.
art taken europe
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
faith thinking profound
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.
fundamentals elements culture
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
sunday america pages
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
strange-times looks reason
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.
america groups awareness
The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
truth understanding culture
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
nature mean culture
Culture means control over nature.
thoughtful essence america
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.
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
fighting way belief
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.