Niklas Luhmann Quotes
Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.
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I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
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I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
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Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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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.
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What kind of human person has a favorite eraser?
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Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.
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I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.
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It's tough to make funny films. And the truth is, with this process, especially if you write your own movie, then you're giving three years of your life to it. And so, I just have to be sure that when I embark on it that I'm happy to think that in three years' time I'm going to be sitting in a room on the tenth floor of an odd office building at Ginsberg Libby talking about it. So I'm keen not to jump into it too quickly and just make sure it's something that I really want.
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At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
