"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
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Age
More From Johan Huizinga
- "An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."
- "Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"
- "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."
More In Age
- "To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself."― Thomas Carlyle
- "At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."― Daniel Day-Lewis
- "My Brat Pack buddies and I didn’t exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure."― Judd Nelson