When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child
Johan HuizingaHistory can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan HuizingaWhat the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.
Johan Huizinga