Johan Huizinga Quote

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


De historie kan niets voorspellen, behalve één ding: dat geen groote wending in de menschelijke verhoudingen ooit uitkomt in den vorm, waarin vroeger levenden zich haar hebben kunnen verbeeld. - In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)


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

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