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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“We know it only too well: if we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“With his ardent arms, man had pulled heaven to earth.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“Regna regnis lupi, The State is a wolf unto the State. It is not a pessimistic lamentation like the old homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to Man], but a positive creed and political ideal.”
—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)