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- I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can…
- It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to…
- We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.
- That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I…
- Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.
- Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how…
- Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the…
- Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be…
- Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across…
- Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the…
- Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
- I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can…
- A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All…
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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