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- Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal.…
- There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding…
- To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that…
- Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and…
- We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think…
- There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see,…
- Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's 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