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.

Quote by Johan Huizinga

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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression...

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden...

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.

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

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

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment...

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment...

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

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

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny...

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market...

We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed...

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed...

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be...

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be...

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it,...

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control...

Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control...

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense...

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense...