Factual truth is always related to other people [...]. It is political by nature. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Plato, in his famous fight against the ancient Sophists, discovered that their “universal art of enchanting the mind by arguments” (Phaedrus 261)… — 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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