Johan huizinga

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination...

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Culture means control over nature.

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.