Niklas Luhmann Quotes

How can the mind participate in communication.

Niklas Luhmann

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Something
  • Afraid
  • Intimacy

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Age
  • Game
  • Goal

• Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Software
  • Page

• There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • People
  • Experience
  • Power

• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Right
  • Possible

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• I read good. I was an English major.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • English
  • Read

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Day
  • Psychology
  • Details

• The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Exercise
  • Lazy
  • Buddha

• Such fools they were in Battle School, to let so few girls in. It left the boys completely helpless against a woman when they returned to Earth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • School
  • Earth

• 'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Doubt

• Throughout history, new arrivals or new competitors have often been regarded as threats, but the reality is that a stronger and more confident China is good for the world.

  

  Javier Solana
  • World
  • History
  • China

• I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mind
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Mind
  • Learning
  • Problem

• How can the mind participate in communication.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Mind
  • Communication
  • Participate