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."

"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."