06. The Hidden Pleasures of Life_Theodore Zeldin

Author - Theodore Zeldin

Book - The Hidden Pleasures of Life (인생의 발견)

Quotes

• The world is what is revealed when we each say what we see when we all shine our faint torches on it.
  
• I cherish the moments when other people’s thoughts do not arrive simply asking for a quiet place to sit in my memory but seem to press a button in my head that switches on the light, illuminating my beliefs on that particular subject, clarifying them by juxtaposing a contrasting view and stimulating a modification I had not previously imagined.
  
• Originally most civilizations did not separate the past from the present: constant and attentive discussion with dead ancestors was the basis on which they planned their future and how they tried to avoid disagreement. For them, the dead were as alive as the living.
  
• Punctuality and efficiency have often become slave-masters, whipping people to cram more activities and achievements into every day, forcing them to surrender their personal rhythms to fixed, anonymous timetables.
  
• Humanity is increasingly split not just by privilege, but also by temperament, between those who appreciate regularity and ordered life, content to fit into what society has arranged for them so that they do not have to constantly make decisions for themselves, and those who want to be in control of what they do and when they do it, to perform each activity at their own speed, to obtain a good part of their pleasure from surprises, variety, and improvisation.
  
• Freedom is not merely a right, but a skill to be acquired, the skill to view the world through different lenses, through lenses other than one’s own, the skill to imagine what no-one has imagined before, to find beauty or meaning or inspiration. Each life is a fable about freedom.
  

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