We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
From Johan Huizinga
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
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.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
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