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

Quote by Johan Huizinga

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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...

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...

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America...

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than...

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...