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If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more prim…

Johan Huizinga Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element… childhood poetry wisdom

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

Johan Huizinga Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element… idea imagination

An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation of Holy Scripture.

Johan Huizinga The Waning of the Middle Ages bible

Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and pr…

Johan Huizinga Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element… play rhythm ritual

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

Johan Huizinga culture emotions

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 beautiful depression world

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

Johan Huizinga past interpretation us

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 Huizinga great changes

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga play special human

The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

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Sickness – Sartre’s first novel

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Hint 1 meaning

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

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PERPLEXED state

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