Johan Huizinga
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Johan Huizinga (December 7, 1872 – February 1, 1945) was a Dutch historian, and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
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- The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.
- Life and Thought in America, ch. 2 (1972)
- Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.
- Life and Thought in America, ch. 2 (1972)
In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)[edit]
- Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
- Ch. 2
- 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.
- Ch. 11
- History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
- De historie kan niets voorspellen, behalve één ding: dat geen groote wending in de menschelijke verhoudingen ooit uitkomt in den vorm, waarin vroeger levenden zich haar hebben kunnen verbeeld.
- Ch. 20
