What did Johan Huizinga mean by: Life is made too easy. Mankind’s moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury. - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands Copy
+ A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Mind, Truth, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Ideas, Imagination, Rainbow, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ Culture arises and unfolds in and as play… culture itself bears the character of play. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Character, Culture, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Thoughtful, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Aim, Culture, Metaphysical, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, History, Interpretation, Past, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Brain, Goal, Republic, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
+ No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, Johan Huizinga, Discipline, History, Portal, 0 - Johan Huizinga Historian · Netherlands
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere. - William Morris Designer · England
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing. - Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion designer · France
You don’t buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others. - Francois-Henri Pinault Businessman
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
