"All human relationships are based on misunderstandings."

Carlos Gershenson Education See all quotes by Carlos Gershenson →

React to this quote

More by Carlos Gershenson

“It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.”

“The question is not whether something is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it.”

“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”

“Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.”

“Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.”

“Carlos Gershenson Google scholar profile”

Resonant Thoughts

"Everyone who achieves strives for totality, and the value of his achievement lies in that totality—that is, in the fact that the whole, undivided nature of a human being should be expressed in his ach…"

— Walter Benjamin

Literature1892–1940

#society

"Friendships and relationships go beyond politics/elections. Heart's mom is very close to Senator Miriam and, while I respect her position now, it will not stop nor deter Heart and I from campaigning a…"

— Francis Escudero

Politics1969

#friendship

"Either you are a man of unusual ability, Thorn, or a man with a rather inadequate grasp of human nature. I just hope it’s the former."

— Alastair Reynolds

Literature1966

#Human Nature

"Life’s better, sounder, when we don’t brood unnecessarily on horrors. As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination."

— Elizabeth Kostova

Literature1964

#life