Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Ideas

Progress

Two

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Art

Cathedrals

Museums

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

Thinking

Way

World

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 different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Knowledge

Learning

Memories

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 how we penetrate this puzzle.

Enigma

Mystery

Persons

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. […] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Children

Way

World

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

Bombs

Gun

People

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

Hero

Thinking

Two

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Ambitious

Humans

Parent

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 we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

Existence

Influence

Views

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Enigma

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Feelings

Foundation

Gone

Gun

Hero

Humans

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Influence

Knowledge

Laughter

Learning

Lonely

Looks

Memories

Museums

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Order

Parent

People

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Reputation

Strive

Talking

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Two

Views

Way

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Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.

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 different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn’t just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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 how we penetrate this puzzle.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. […] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

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 we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

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