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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

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.

Tags: great, yourself, mystery

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...

Theodore Zeldin

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...

Tags: ideas

About Author
Theodore Zeldin (born 22 August 1933) is a scholar and current Associate Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford. He is the author of A History of French Passions, a quotidian history of the French people, as well as An Intimate History of Humanity.He is also a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, having previously been its dean for 13 years, and a member of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

Theodore Zeldin

I particularly value conversations which are meetings on the borderline of what I understand and what I don't, with people who are different from myself.

Tags: conversation

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

Theodore Zeldin

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

Tags: life, love life, people

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

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.

Tags: world, people, lonely

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...

Theodore Zeldin

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...

Tags: family, children, good

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

Theodore Zeldin

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

Tags: trust, great, precious