Theodore Zeldin Quotes

It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves.

Anlamak, anlaşmazlığı ortadan kaldırmaz, ama anlaşmazlığı zenginlik veren bir deneyime dönüştürür; insanda, insanlığın çeşitliliğinin gizemli dünyasına kabul edildiğine ve yalnızca kısmen yaşıyor olmaktan kurtulabileceğine dair bir his yaratır.

Everything that is remembered about the past is washed, and often drowned, in nostalgia, pride, illusions and passions of all kinds.

life could have been different if the meetings which have decided its course had been less silent, superficial or routine, if more thoughts had been exchanged, if humanity had been more able to show itself in them

The vast majority of scientists devote a large part of their efforts to writing articles which are never read.

To ignore what cannot be measured in precise numbers is like counting the stems in a bouquet of flowers while ignoring the indescribable perfume and beauty of each bud.

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 them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

A new way of looking is needed in a world which believes that every individual has a right to flower, within limits, in his or her own way.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Özgürlük, yalnızca bir hak değildir; kazanılması gereken bir beceridir aynı zamanda; insanın dünyayı kendi göz mercekleri dışında farklı mercekler altında görebilme ve daha önce kimsenin hayal etmediği bir şeyi hayal etme becerisidir, güzellik, anlam ve ilham bulmaktır. Her hayat, özgürlük hakkında yazılmış bir hikayedir.

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

I invented something called The Oxford Muse. The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspiration. They taught you how to cultivate your emotions through the different arts in order to reach a higher plane. What is lacking now, I believe, is somewhere you can get that stimulation not information, but stimulation where you can meet just that person, or find just that situation, which will give you the idea of invention, of carrying out some project which interests you, and show how it can become a project of interest to other people.

Yalnızca zenginliğinizi nasıl kullanacağınızı bildiğinizde gerçekten zengindiniz. Zengin olmak demek, parayla olduğu kadar hayatla da ne yapacağını bilmek demekti, yalnızca para kazanmak değildi.

Aşırı dindarlık, iki farklı şekilde çıkar karşımıza; birincisinde dünyadan günahı silmeyi amaçlayarak kendi fikirlerini herkese empoze etmeye çalışır; diğerinde ise tehlikeli etkilerden arınmış, içine kapalı bir varoluşa ulaşabilmek için kendini dünyanın günahkarlığından uzaklaştırır.