Let us consider for a moment the following argument. The child plays in complete--we can well say, in sacred--earnest. But it play
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Johan Huizinga quotes
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There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.
All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has a
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The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allows
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Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired te
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If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures of
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People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims t
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Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded
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