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

• I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Money
  • Looks
  • Brains

• You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Character
  • You
  • Know

• Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • Justice
  • Ideas
  • Knowing

• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Good
  • Today

• 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