Author Profile
Johan Huizinga
1872 – 1945 • Dutch • Historian
26
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 26 quotesHistory creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.— 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 yearning.— Johan Huizinga
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.— Johan Huizinga
The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.— Johan Huizinga