Johann Huizinga Famous Quotes



"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."


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To love another person is to help them love God.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
Robert E Kahn

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Douglas Hurd

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."
David Mamet

"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
John Cleese

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."
Mignon McLaughlin

This book fills a much-needed gap.
Moses Hadas

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
Laertius Diogenes

"In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth."
Susanne Langer