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- Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence…
- The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is…
- Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they…
- The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is…
- The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
- All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible…
- There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing…
- A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in…
- The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of…
- The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide