With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Only a man who does not survive his one supreme act remains the indisputable master of his identity and possible greatness because… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This is mortality: to move along a rectilinear line in a universe where everything, if it moves at all, moves in a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the most intense feeling we know of, intense to the point of blotting out all other experiences, namely, the experience of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
