Theodore Zeldin Quotes

Theodore Zeldin — English Philosopher born on August 22, 1933,

Theodore Zeldin is an Oxford scholar and thinker whose books have searched for answers to three questions. Where can a person look to find more inspiring ways of spending each day and each year? What ambitions remain unexplored, beyond happiness, prosperity, faith, love, technology or therapy? What role could there be for individuals with independent minds, or who feel isolated or different, or misfits? Each of Zeldin’s books illuminates from a different angle what people can do today that they could not in previous centuries... (wikipedia)

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

Theodore Zeldin Quotes

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