Humberto Maturana Quotes & Sayings

Everything said is said by someone. — Humberto Maturana

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

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. — Humberto Maturana

Things do not exist until they begin to appear. — Humberto Maturana

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

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

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