The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan HuizingaRevolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Johan HuizingaEvery work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Johan HuizingaThe title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga