Best Hannah Arendt Quotations
- Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. Guideposts
- Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had… Arisen
- Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning… Beginning
- Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Creating
- A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its… Becomes
- The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. End
- Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which… Always Educating
- Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… Achieved
- The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in… Activities
- Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save… Assume
- The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we… Battle
- Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it… Child
- There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… Alive
- Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single… Act
- Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. Among
- We are free to change the world and start something new in it. Change
- This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never… Ability
- The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction,… Communist
- What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! Experience
- To think and to be fully alive are the same. Alive
- Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. Displayed
- Every thought is an afterthought. Afterthought
- Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which… Appearance
- It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit… Admit
- 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 own… All
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