The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.
Johan HuizingaA superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan HuizingaThe content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan Huizinga