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
original-thought revolution essentials
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
philosophical systematic culture
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
spiritual judging history
We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.
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.
powerful struggle wings
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.
reflection men expression
The slogan offers a counterweight to the general dispersion of thought by holding it fast to a single, utterly succinct and unforgettable expression, one which usually inspires men to immediate action. It abolishes reflection: the slogan does not argue, it asserts and commands.
science progress culture
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
confused history rose
But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.
music mean history
One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.
fighting way belief
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
simple feelings culture
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.
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.
discipline history portal
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.
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?