With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. — 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
Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and… — 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, appearance—something that is being seen and heard by others as well as by ourselves—constitutes reality. Compared with the reality which comes from being seen and heard, even the greatest forces of intimate life—the passions of the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
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
