History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan Huizinga
You only live a short time.. And you are dead a long time.
life time live dead short
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
human experience play special act
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.
poetry life wisdom childhood
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
life
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
life luxury
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
crime man nature war humannature
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
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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.
places art science religion
Culture means control over nature.
culture nature
change history
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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.
faith thetimes time
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
history
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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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