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Quotes about culture

Magic and mystery, heroic longings, the foreshadowings of music, sculpture and logic all seek form and expression in noble play. […] In play, therefore, the antithetical and agonistic basis of civilization is given from the start, for play is older and more original than civilization.

– Johan Huizinga
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We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play like a baby detaching itself from the womb: it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

– Johan Huizinga
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Culture will, in a sense, always be played according to certain rules […]. Hence the cheat or the spoil-sport shatters culture itself.

– Johan Huizinga
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The view we take […] is that culture arises in the form of play, that it is played from the very beginning.

– Johan Huizinga
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As artifacts of the culture that produced them, wargames do serve in the continual exercise of historical revision and socially useful amnesia.

– Brian Train
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