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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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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

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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Johan Huizinga

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