Johan Huizinga quotes

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The art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The youn ...
Injustice, cruelty, restraint of conscience, oppression, falsity, dishonour, deceit, violation of law and equity?--But look how th ...
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs ...
Not until the advent of Impressionism does the repudiation of principles set in which opened the way for the burlesque parade of t ...
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table a ...
Regna regnis lupi, The State is a wolf unto the State. It is not a pessimistic lamentation like the old homo homini lupus [Man is ...
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have ...
Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through.
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "England ...
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