Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.
Johan HuizingaCulture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
Johan HuizingaThe modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
Johan Huizinga