Maturana Humberto Quotes

#1. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

#2. Things do not exist until they begin to appear.

Humberto Maturana

#3. Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Somehow, I think the fact that the inceptor looked like a cross between a young George Clooney and Orlando Bloom might have played into that a little bit.

Ally Carter

#5. Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

Humberto Maturana

#6. Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business of any art: 'How do you see the world, and what right do you have to see the world in the way that you do?'

Robert Hass

#7. We all have minds that are capable of knowledge; therefore, if you work at it, eventually knowledge can be gained.

Dalai Lama XIV

#8. Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Humberto Maturana

#9. One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!

Louis L'Amour

#10. The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#11. We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

Humberto Maturana

#12. Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day:
But by their flight I never can devine
When I shall couple with my valentine.

Robert Herrick

#13. Everything said is said by someone.

Humberto Maturana

#14. We often get pigeon-holed as a tough guy, or whatever else. I've been pigeon-holed as a heavy and serious, and almost a baddy, but not quite a baddy, over the years of my work in television, particularly.

John Noble

#15. That made sense. Not many couples lasted after losing a child.

Darynda Jones

#16. History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

Humberto Maturana

#17. I'll leave a note to the rector of the cathedral and remind him that a woman gave him birth. Something for him to think about the next time he gives one of his sermons. I'm writing all this down.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#18. The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness, self observation and reflection on the circumstances of the subject trainee, both in his individual life and as a social being.

Humberto Maturana