Theodore Zeldin Quotes

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• Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw…
• The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
• The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant…
• The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.
• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files…
• All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
• Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.
• Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts…
• The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
• Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
• Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did
• Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.
• Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is…
• When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?
• To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that…
• What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world,…
• A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
• The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could…
• We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.
• The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

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