Niklas Luhmann Quotes

Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

Niklas Luhmann

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• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • Where
  • Brains

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Poet
  • Survive
  • Can

• Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Religious
  • Minds
  • Normal

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Communicate
  • Genuine

• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
  • Acting
  • Satisfaction
  • Brains

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Minds
  • Souls

• Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Brains
  • Exploration
  • Horizont

• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Die
  • Humans
  • Changes

• The purpose of computers is human freedom.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Humans

• Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Faith
  • Possibilities
  • Can

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Live
  • Love

• Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

  

  Leopold von Ranke
  • Humans
  • Ruins

• When I first got successful, I was particularly aware of being immaculate at all times, so I would get on a plane in one outfit, and get off in another. It doesn't happen in today's world, but when you are met by the press at both ends, you do have to.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Successful
  • Press
  • Plane

• Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Humans
  • Minds
  • Communicate