In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself. — 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
“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.” — 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… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold… — 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
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside… — 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
“And if he did not always like what he had to do...he never forgot what the alternative would have been. Not only… — 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… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Only the existence of a public realm and the world’s subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — 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
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the… — 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.… — 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
“Whether an activity is performed in private or in public is by no means a matter of indifference. Obviously, the character of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“To leave the household, originally in order to embark upon some adventure and glorious enterprise and later simply to devote one’s life… — 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
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The emergence of society—the rise of housekeeping, its activities, problems, and organizational devices—from the shadowy interior of the household into the light… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The private realm of the household was the sphere where the necessities of life, of individual survival as well as of continuity… — 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
