It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.
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
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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