Different Memories Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

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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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 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.

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