With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. — 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
If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The point then is not that there is a lack of public admiration for poetry and philosophy in the modern world, but… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“To find a bond between people strong enough to replace the world was the main political task of early Christian philosophy, and… — 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
“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it… — 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
