History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
Johan HuizingaThe content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan HuizingaWe have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then.
Johan HuizingaRevolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Johan Huizinga