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Johan Huizinga Quotes

1872–1945 Netherlands

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

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Philosophers

Random Johan Huizinga quote

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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

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.

In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johan Huizinga (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.