Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Johan HuizingaEvery age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Johan HuizingaThere are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
Johan HuizingaThe 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 Huizinga