Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly … - Theodore Zeldin

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Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly in their own private roots, and have therefore never claimed the whole of the inheritance into which they were born, the legacy of everybody’s past experience. Each generation searches only for what it thinks it lacks, and recognizes only what it knows already.

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About Theodore Zeldin

Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a British philosopher, historian, and writer.

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İki kişi karşılıklı saygı çerçevesinde sohbet ettiğinde ve farklı bir bakış açısını anlamak için gerçek bir ilgiyle birbirlerini dinlediklerinde, kendilerini bir başkasının yerine koymayı ve onların bedenine bürünmeyi denediklerinde yalnızca tek bir dakikalığına bile olsa dünya farklı bir yer haline gelir. Ardında neredeyse her insanın saklandığı maskeyi yalnızca kısmen de olsa kaldırırlar.

Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not "melt the hearts" of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to think that he was changing the course of history, and that his righteousness would last "as long as the sun and the moon."

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