Johan Huizinga Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

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

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”

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

“Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?”