Quotes by : Johan Huizinga

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in....

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function....

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved.....

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generally it is a simple circle,....

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the....

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating....

For us the chief point of interest is the place where the game is played. Generatly it is a simple circle,....

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in....

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never....

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.