Niklas Luhmann Quotes

Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

Niklas Luhmann

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• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Morality

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Death
  • Best

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • House
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Death
  • Star

• If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Heart
  • Broken

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• Don't do drugs.

  

  Eminem
  • Drugs
  • Don't Do

• I'll battle this bitter finale,Just me, my dignity and this guitar case.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Bitter

• On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Men

• Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • People
  • Education
  • Sports

• You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • People
  • Different

• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • True
  • Hate

• I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Work
  • Guy

• Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Important
  • Dating

• I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • School
  • Today
  • Girl

• Like a page of music, like an upper air, Like a momentary color, in which swans Were seraphs, were saints, were changing essences. The west wind was the music, the motion, the force To which the swans curveted, a will to change, A will to make iris frettings on the blank.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Air
  • Color

• For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centrally concerned with preserving the idea of race and racial unanimity. We need something we don't yet have: a way of speaking about black poverty that doesn't falsify the reality of black advancement; a way of speaking about black advancement that doesn't distort the enduring realities of black poverty.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Reality
  • Black
  • Poverty

• When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Up
  • School
  • Movie

• Reality is what one does not perceive when one perceives it.

  

  Niklas Luhmann
  • Reality
  • One
  • Perceive