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Johan Huizinga

"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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"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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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."

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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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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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"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."
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"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us."
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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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"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."
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"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."
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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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