Johan Huizinga Quotes

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

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

You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.