Humberto Maturana

"Fear arises when we deny the reality we are generating."

"Power is the ability to generate new possibilities for action."

"Money is a domain of descriptions that generates social structures."

"Health is the state of coherence in a living system."

"Adventure is the journey of discovering new domains of living."

"Imagination is the source of all human creation."

"Technology extends our capacity for action in the world."

"History is the accumulation of human distinctions over time."

"Philosophy is the reflection on our ways of living and knowing."

"Literature is the expression of human experience through language."

"Politics arises from our coordination as living systems."

"War emerges when we deny the legitimacy of others' existence."

"Motivation comes from alignment with our nature as living systems."

"Inspiration is the spark of new distinctions in consciousness."

"Relationships are the domain where we generate meaning together."

"Solitude is the space where we reconnect with our nature."

"Understanding is generated in the space of consensual domains."

"The structure of a living system is determined by its history."

"In every observation, the observer participates in what is observed."

"To change the world, we must change the distinctions we make."

"All human behavior is coherent within the observer's domain of descriptions."

"The nervous system generates descriptions of descriptions."

"Learning is the generation of new coherences in living systems."

"Communication is the domain of coordinated actions between living systems."

"Diversity is the richness of different ways of generating worlds."

"Unity emerges when different systems generate compatible descriptions."

"The future is open; it is generated through our present actions."

"Becoming is the essence of living; being is an abstraction."

"Reality is not discovered; it is generated through observation."

"Every distinction we make generates a world."