"Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate."

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Source : "Materialities of Communication" edited by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, (p. 371), 1988.

Niklas Luhmann

#Communication Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.”
“Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.”
“Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important role not only in cure of physical ailments, but also for moral and spiritual progress.”
“Germany had come late to feast at the table of colonialism and did not feel that the division of colonial spoils at that particular moment in time reflected its true strength and its true weight in the imperialist world.”

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“All Chess players should have a hobby”
“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.”
“We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
“I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.”

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