Johan Huizinga Quotes and its meanings

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Johan Huizinga has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about age, attitude, faith, history, religion, science & wisdom. People always share Age quotes, Attitude quotes, faith, history, religion, science & wisdom from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Johan Huizinga?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Johan Huizinga.

• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
• An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
• 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.
• History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
• 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.