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Johan Huizinga
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"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Wisdom
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Religion
"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Funny
"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."
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Faith
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Age
"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
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Johan Huizinga
Topic(s):
Attitude
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