The modern city hardly knows a pure darkness or true silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.
Johan HuizingaWithout claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of รฆsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.
Johan HuizingaThe second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
Johan HuizingaThe content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Johan Huizinga