By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence… — 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
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Since the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and the stateless have attached themselves like a curse to all the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — 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
It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Here it is self-evident that public admiration and monetary reward are of the same nature and can become substitutes for each other.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In his] mind, there was no contradiction between "I will jump into my grave laughing," appropriate for the end of the war,… — 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
“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
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Somehow it was not the fault of the born adventurers, of those who by their very nature dwelt outside society and outside… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — 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
“To avoid misunderstanding: the human condition is not the same as human nature, and the sum total of human activities and capabilities… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It was in the nature of the Nazi movement that it kept moving, became more radical with each passing month, but one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other… — 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
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