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Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Dutch Historian
Born: Dec 7, 1872
Died: Feb 1, 1945
Culture History Judgment Life Means Will
Related authors: Alexis de Tocqueville Hannah Arendt Herodotus Tacitus Tara Westover Thucydides Will Durant Yuval Noah Harari
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. Johan Huizinga
Life Impossible Hero Nothing Heroic Heroism Strive Bestowed Know Fallen Survivors Title Themselves Who
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. Johan Huizinga
Power Judgment Pictorial Advertising Enables His Modern Average Exploit Suggestion
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. Johan Huizinga
Abandonment Judgment Understanding Primacy Well Norms Ethical Means Standards Hence
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. Johan Huizinga
Faith Strange Dissolution Once Seemed Look Times Which Reason Conquered Now Save
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time. Johan Huizinga
Time You Long Long Time Live Only Dead Short Short Time
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible. Johan Huizinga
Character Together World Try Own Market Our Possible Put Maintain Partners However Up Either Against Social Much Europe European Dam
Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga
Nature Culture Control Over Means
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself. Johan Huizinga
War Nature Man Crime Control Human Nature Every Our Hundred Lies Physical Shackled Triumphs Only Point Feet Himself Domination Human Psychiatry Against Mean Social Chains Services Every Man
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. Johan Huizinga
Culture Striving Feature Element Fundamental Second
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Johan Huizinga
Beautiful Depression Age World Desperation Every About More Yearning Intense Confusing Deeper Present
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Johan Huizinga
Great History Will Predict Nothing Changes Relationships About Except Never Come Been Anticipated Human Form Which Human Relationships
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? Johan Huizinga
Funny You Sunday Humiliating Innocence More Do You Know Know Than America Anything Newspaper Pages

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