Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.
Theodore ZeldinAll invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.
Theodore ZeldinOne of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.
Theodore ZeldinThe Renaissanceโฆ was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.
Theodore Zeldin