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Johan Huizinga Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: dutch
Birth: December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945

Topics

Simple Thought Confusion Superstition

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

John Fowles

Nature Me Woods Way Never Seem

In truth, in the fairy-tale version of bailing out Lehman, the next domino, A.I.G., would have fallen even harder. If the politics of bailing out Lehman were bad, the politics of bailing out A.I.G. would have been worse. And the systemic risk that a failure of A.I.G. posed was orders of magnitude greater than Lehman's collapse.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Failure Truth Politics Bad Risk Out

It has to be convenient. You have to be able to bank with me anytime.

Ana Patricia Botin

Me You Bank Able Convenient Anytime

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

Good Evil True Being Only Far

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Rita Ora

Never Finished Album Until Shelves

To be counter to the culture, you are by definition willfully and actively ignoring the culture, i.e., reality.

Rob Lowe

Culture Reality You Ignoring Counter

I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.

Mike Ross

Health Support People Me Voice Care

The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

Martin Sheen

Key Reality Nothing West Show Word

There are lots of things where NAFTA can be updated and upgraded.

Luis Videgaray Caso

Things Where NAFTA Lots Updated

If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.

Julia Holter

Sad Me Song Help Kind Write

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have to write the best books we possibly can and hope that, once the pink covers and Bridget Jones have faded from memory, we might finally be allowed just to be called writers.

Lisa Jewell

Women Hope Best Memory Pink Trying

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

Jason Alexander

Career Jump More If I Could Move