Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga (Groningen, December 7, 1872 – De Steeg, February 1, 1945), was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

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    The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and superseded by elements of lower quality.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    We know it only too well: if we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)