List of Johan Huizinga Quotes

William James Once Said: "progress Is A Terrible Thing." It Is More Than That: It Is Also A Highly Ambiguous Notion. For Who Knowsbut That A Little Further On The Way A Bridge May Not Have Collapsed Or A Crevice Split The Earth?

No Other Discipline Has Its Portals So Wide Open To The General Public As History.

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.

The Art Of Watching Has Become Mere Skill At Rapid Apperception And Understanding Of Continuously Changing Visual Images. The Younger Generation Has Acquired This Cinematic Perception To An Amazing Degree.

The New Knowledge Has Not Yet Settled In Culture. It Has Not Yet Been Integrated In A New Cosmic Conception.

Under Weak Government, In A Wide, Thinly Populated Country, In The Struggle Against The Raw Natural Environment And With The Freeplay Of Economic Forces, Unified Social Groups Become The Transmitters Of Culture.

The Susceptibility Of The Average Modern To Pictorial Suggestion Enables Advertising To Exploit His Lessened Power Of Judgment.

Every Work Of History Constructs Contexts And Designs, Forms In Which Past Reality Can Be Comprehended. History Creates Comprehensibility Primarily By Arranging Facts Meaningfully And Only In A Very Limited Sense By Establishing Strict Causal Connections.

The Awareness Of The All-surpassing Importance Of Social Groups Is Now General Property In America.

In Order To Begin An Analysis, There Must Already Be A Synthesis Present In The Mind.

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.

It Is The Goal Of The American University To Be The Brains Of The Republic.