Johan Huizinga Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Ethical Standards, Understanding

• One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Mean, History

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.54, Princeton University Press

• There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

  Johan Huizinga

  Truth, Understanding, Culture

• Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Numbers, Understanding

• The 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 Huizinga

  Art, Skills, Understanding

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