Johan Huizinga (Dutch - Historian)
December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
Culture means control over nature.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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.
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
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.
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