All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind. Johan Huizinga More Quotes by Johan Huizinga More Quotes From Johan Huizinga Whatever our creed or belief, we all know that there is no way back, that we must fight our way through. Johan Huizinga fighting belief way 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. Johan Huizinga understanding skills art When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child Johan Huizinga distance sadness children 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 strange-times reason looks Culture means control over nature. Johan Huizinga nature mean culture 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 ethical-standards understanding mean 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? Johan Huizinga progress bridges earth It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. Johan Huizinga republic goal brain No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. Johan Huizinga portal discipline history Most thoughtful Americans of today seem to have forgotten how strongly their own and immediate predecessors, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman, were still preoccupied with the essence behind things. Johan Huizinga thoughtful essence america 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 nothing hero impossible life 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 try together character world
