Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Theodore ZeldinThe kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
Theodore ZeldinForks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did
Theodore ZeldinThe past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.
Theodore ZeldinNothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.
Theodore Zeldin