Johan Huizinga Quotes

• Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

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  Men, Animal, Play

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.1, Taylor & Francis

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• Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

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  Character, Play, Culture

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• The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

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  Civilization, Play, Dancing

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• Juego: Es una actividad que se desarrolla dentro de ciertos límites de tiempo y espacio, en un orden visible, según reglas libremente aceptadas y fuera de la esfera de la necesidad o la utilidad material. El espíritu lúdico es de arrebato y entusiasmo, y es sagrado o festivo según la ocasión. Un sentimiento de exaltación y tensión acompaña a la acción.

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  Order, Play, Space

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

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  Play, Justice, Mind

  Johan Huizinga (1971). “Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

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  Culture, Preserves, Ifs

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• El juego es un acto adaptativo único, no subordinado a ningún otro acto adaptativo, sino con una función especial propia en la experiencia humana.

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  Playing Games, Special, Function

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• Todas las épocas anhelan un mundo más bello. Cuanto más profunda es la desesperación y la depresión por el confuso presente, más intenso es ese anhelo.

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  Depression, Beautiful, Confusing

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• History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

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  Past, History, Interpretation

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• The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

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  Ideas, Imagination, Rainbow

  Johan Huizinga (1949). “Homo Ludens”, Routledge/Thoemms Press

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

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  Music, Sports, Fashion

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

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  Use, Spirit, Youth

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• Culture means control over nature.

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  Nature, Mean, Culture

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• You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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  Largo, Largo tiempo, Corto tiempo

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• Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

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  Spiritual, Balance, Culture

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• The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.

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  Lonely, Cities, Light

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• El contenido del ideal es el deseo de volver a la perfección de un pasado imaginario.

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  Past, Perfection, Desire

  Johan Huizinga (2016). “The Waning of the Middle Ages”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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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.

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  Form, Humans, Great Change

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 20, 1936.

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• It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.

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  Powerful, Struggle, Fire

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• Si los estadounidenses, además del águila y las barras y estrellas y los símbolos más oficiosos del bisonte, el alce y el indio, necesitaran algún día otro emblema, simpático y agradable, creo que deberían elegir el pomelo. O mejor dicho, medio pomelo, porque creo que esta fruta sólo viene por la mitad. En la práctica, siempre es amarillo, siempre igual de fresco y bien servido. Y siempre llega a la misma hora, todavía esperanzadora, de la mañana.

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  Morning, Stars, Believe

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

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  Culture, Metaphysical, Aim

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• Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

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  Luxury, Giving, Way

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• If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

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  Guerra, Civilización, Historia

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• What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.

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  Art, History, Common

  Johan Huizinga (1968). “Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays”

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• Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

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  Mean, Science, Technology

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