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
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.
mean numbers understanding
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.
dream laughter children
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.
goal brain republic
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
country struggle america
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.
simple practice confusion
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.