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Explore more quotes by Johan Huizinga

"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."

"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

"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."

"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."

"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic."

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

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