If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.Johan Huizinga
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
Johan Huizinga
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
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Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
Johan Huizinga
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