History Quotes by Hannah Arendt

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

— Hannah Arendt

Every thought is an afterthought.

— Hannah Arendt

“The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.”

— Hannah Arendt

With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

— Hannah Arendt

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

— Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

— Hannah Arendt

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded…

— Hannah Arendt

The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.

— Hannah Arendt

The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long…

— Hannah Arendt

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their…

— Hannah Arendt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has…

— Hannah Arendt

“Of these, only the last, the crime against humanity, was new and unprecedented. Aggressive warfare is at least as old as recorded…

— Hannah Arendt

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of…

— Hannah Arendt

The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a…

— Hannah Arendt

Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern…

— Hannah Arendt

“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter…

— Hannah Arendt

“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this…

— Hannah Arendt

“THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant…

— Hannah Arendt