Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Quote by Johan Huizinga

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Culture means control over nature.

Culture means control over nature.

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...

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...

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...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition...

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...

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...

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...

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...