The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.
Johan HuizingaIn Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Johan HuizingaThe art of watching has become mere skill at rapid apperception and understanding of continuously changing visual images. The younger generation has acquired this cinematic perception to an amazing degree.
Johan HuizingaThe title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga