Famous quotes containing the word huizinga:
“People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)