Johan Huizinga

"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."

- Johan Huizinga

"Culture arises and unfolds in and as play."

- Johan Huizinga

"Now in myth and ritual the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. All are rooted in the primeval soil of play."

- Johan Huizinga

"Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play…. We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play…it arises in and as play, and never leaves it."

- Johan Huizinga