Kenneth J Gergen quotes

You might sit at your computer, thinking you own and control your own ideas but it doesn't take long before you realize that you're part of a bigger network. You're fully wrapped up in relationships out of which you come and in which you participate. To look at yourself as a single being is absurd. The new way to look at it is, 'I'm connected, therefore I am.'
-- Kenneth J Gergen

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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.