Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up i… - Johan Huizinga
The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up i…
- Johan Huizinga
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. - Johan Huizinga
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. - Johan Huizinga
The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearnin… - Johan Huizinga
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearnin…
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. - Johan Huizinga
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. - Johan Huizinga
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play. - Johan Huizinga
Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play. - Johan Huizinga
You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. - Johan Huizinga
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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