26 Theodore Zeldin Quotes for You to Enjoy

Theodore Zeldin

English Philosopher

Born: Aug 22, 1933

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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. Theodore Zeldin

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People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something. Theodore Zeldin

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People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them. Theodore Zeldin

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The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world. Theodore Zeldin

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We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations. Theodore Zeldin

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The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable. Theodore Zeldin

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The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone. Theodore Zeldin

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The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things. Theodore Zeldin

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The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable. Theodore Zeldin

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Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential. Theodore Zeldin

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When two people talk with mutual respect and listen with a real interest in understanding another point of view, when they try to put themselves in the place of another, to get inside their skin, they change the world, even if it is only by a minute amount, because they are establishing equality between two human beings. Theodore Zeldin

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The more education you do, the less you are capable of doing. Theodore Zeldin

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The world is... often terrifying, disgusting and tragic, but it is also beautiful. I should like to know how exactly each person would make it a tiny bit less disgusting and a tiny bit more beautiful. Theodore Zeldin

It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, to attempt to increase, by even a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world. Theodore Zeldin

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I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship. Theodore Zeldin

I think it's impossible to predict the future but it is possible to look at the past and see how one can do differently from what one's ancestors have done and learn from their mistakes, and one can see how even though there are enormous forces which stop one doing what one wants to, there are little holes in which the individual can do something. Theodore Zeldin

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I don't think fear can be abolished. Theodore Zeldin

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What's missing from the world is a sense of direction. Theodore Zeldin

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So much of what passes for conversation today is degraded. It's either about one-upmanship, or dreary trivia. Even the cut and thrust of wit and bons mots is a form of bedazzlement designed to stop conversations dead rather than broaden them. Theodore Zeldin

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

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