78 Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

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

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

Numai atunci cand vor invata sa dialogheze oamenii vor incepe sa fie egali.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.