Dutch - Historian | December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga
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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.
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It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
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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 of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
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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.
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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.
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