"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."

Life, Heroism, Nothing

50

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."

Explore more quotes by Johan Huizinga

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Cultural, Culture, Will

"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time."

Time,

"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."

Thought, Confusion, Popular, Superstition

"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."

Judgment, Opinion, Proof, Public

"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture."

History, Culture

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."

Life, Giving, Influence, Luxury

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

Cultural, Culture

"Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience."

Experience, Act, Play

"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."

Wisdom, Wealth, Earth, Heaven

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."

History, Nothing, Relationships, Will

Exlpore more Life quotes

"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Hell, Optimism, Hope, Send

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Life, Today, Happiness, Inspirational, Truth

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Life, Regret, Truth, Wisdom

"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Life, Regret, Truth, Power, Today

"Hate is hostility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Hate, Hostility, Heart

"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Money, Problems, Unhappiness, Style

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious