Johan Huizinga Quotes About Values

• Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

  Johan Huizinga

  Spiritual, Balance, Culture

• He who wishes to maintain that the past of mankind no longer has any absolute value in lifemust also be ready to deny his ownlife until the present moment, indeed in advance until the last moment, as worthless. He who realizes that culture is the giving of form will also see that the highest forms that it is given to the human spirit to recognize have always been, psychologically considered, such evasions from the present. Considerations such as these do not at all square with the direction of America's mind.

  Johan Huizinga

  Past, Squares, America

• Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

  Johan Huizinga

  Quality, Decay, Elements

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