Quote by Johan Huizinga
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past ha

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. – Johan Huizinga

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Faith
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga

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Wisdom
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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. – Winston Churchill

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We proceed out of history into history again. – Sidney Alexander

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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger

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For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. – Bill Moyers

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As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. – Andre Norton

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. – Bernard Keble Sandwell

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My dads passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. – Jennie Garth

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