Theodore Zeldin Quotes (12 quotes)

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„One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.“
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„To idolise a person means you don't get to know them, and the idea that you can become one is a myth, and it also means that you don't need to talk to one another because you're the same person.“
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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.“
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„I don't think there is anything a man can do that a woman cannot do.“
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„We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.“
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„Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.“
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„The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.“
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„Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.“
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„We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.“
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„The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.“
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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.“
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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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Theodore Zeldin
Author born: August 22, 1933
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Philosopher

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