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- Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our…
- We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature and, above all, with those Higher…
- The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism,…
- You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and…
- I'm not at all contemptuous of comforts, but they have their place and it is not first.
- Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
- After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon.…
- Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is…
- Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain…
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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
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle