Best quotes by Johan Huizinga on Culture

Checkout quotes by Johan Huizinga on Culture

  • If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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  • Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
    - Johan Huizinga
  • An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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  • Culture means control over nature.
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  • The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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  • Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
    - Johan Huizinga