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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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 greatest national resource is the minds of our children.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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Lies sleep in minds. Truths sleep in souls.
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As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
