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Johan Huizinga

"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."
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"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
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"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
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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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"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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